CS 1706: Saints with Disabilities: Wednesday
Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This week we are thrilled to welcome guest host Kelly Mantoan, a Catholic wife, mother, homeschooler, special needs parent and founder of ACCEPTING THE GIFT, a ministry for Catholic Parents of children with disabilities. Each day Kelly will introduce you to an incredible saint who, despite some sort of disability, pursued holiness and is now a saint in heaven.
+MONDAY: St. Germaine
+TUESDAY: St. Joseph of Cupertino
+WEDNESDAY: St. Alexius Kim Si U
+THURSDAY: Rene Goapil
+FRIDAY: St. Margaret of Costello
Kelly Mantoan is the founder of ACCEPTING THE GIFT, a ministry for Catholic Parents of children with disabilities. To learn more about this incredible ministry, and browse their incredible free resources, head to https://acceptingthegift.org/
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to |
| 0:07.4 | Catholic sprouts |
| 0:09.6 | the daily podcast for Catholic kids |
| 0:13.4 | that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:22.7 | Hello sprouts. Hello, Sprouts. |
| 0:24.2 | Today is Wednesday, October 23, 2024. |
| 0:28.1 | Today is also the Feast of St. John of Capistrano. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Kelly Mantone, the founder of accepting the gift, a ministry which supports the parents |
| 0:35.5 | of children with disabilities. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm here as a guest host |
| 0:38.6 | on the Catholic Sprouts podcast to talk to you about some of my favorite saints, all of whom just |
| 0:44.0 | happen to have disabilities. Today, I want to tell you the story of Blessed Alexias Kim Xiu. He's not a |
| 0:52.0 | saint yet, but hopefully he and the other 123 Korean blessed will be soon. |
| 0:58.3 | Alexius lived in the 1800s in Korea at a time when it was illegal to be a Christian. |
| 1:04.9 | Christianity had only arrived in Korea shortly before he was born and was primarily spread by lay people who had learned |
| 1:12.5 | about it while traveling in other countries. These people brought religious books back into |
| 1:18.2 | Korea and translated them so more people could learn about Jesus. The first priests arrived |
| 1:24.4 | secretly by sneaking over the border into Korea in the 1840s. So it was dangerous to be |
| 1:30.5 | a Catholic in Korea. You could be arrested or killed for practicing your faith or hiding a priest |
| 1:36.1 | in your home. The government of Korea thought these new Christian beliefs undermined their authority |
| 1:41.6 | and wanted to get rid of Christians no matter what. |
| 1:45.2 | All in all, it's believed that 8 to 10,000 Koreans were killed for their faith during five |
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