CS 1708: Saints with Disabilities: Friday
Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
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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, |
| 0:10.5 | the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, Sprouts. Hello, Sprouts. Today is Friday, October 25th, 2024. Today is also the feast of St. Antonio de Saint Anna Galvao. I'm Kelly Mantone, the founder of accepting the gift, a ministry which supports the |
| 0:37.1 | parents of children with |
| 0:38.1 | disabilities. I'm here as a guest host on the Catholic Sprouse podcast to talk to you about some of my |
| 0:44.0 | favorite saints, all of whom just happened to have disabilities. Today, I want to tell you the story |
| 0:50.4 | of St. Margaret of Castello. Margaret was born in the 1300s in Italy. Her parents had been hoping for a son, but instead |
| 0:58.8 | they were blessed with a daughter who was blind and had dwarfism and severe scoliosis. |
| 1:04.0 | That means that she was short and her deformed spine caused her to be hunched forward. |
| 1:10.0 | Her disabilities also made it difficult for her to walk. |
| 1:13.8 | Her parents were so embarrassed by her disabilities, they kept her hidden in a room of their castle. |
| 1:19.8 | When she was accidentally discovered by a guest, her parents moved her to a small room built |
| 1:25.1 | on the side of the local church, and they bricked up the door |
| 1:28.3 | trapping her inside. Food was passed to her through a small door, and another small window |
| 1:34.7 | allowed her to hear Mass and receive communion. The priest of the parish was kind to Margaret, |
| 1:41.5 | and educated her. When Margaret was a teenager, her parents took her to a |
| 1:46.6 | shrine where many miracles had happened in the hopes of healing her disabilities. When she was not |
| 1:52.4 | healed, they abandoned her in the town never to see her again. She spent a while begging on the |
| 1:59.0 | streets before a local Dominican monastery took her in, and she became a third-order Dominican, which is a sort of religious order open to lay people. Despite being mistreated and abandoned by her parents, Margaret never became angry or bitter. She lived out her days with joy and the people of the town came to love her. |
| 2:19.2 | One day, there was a fire in the house where Margaret lived. The downstairs was completely engulfed |
| 2:25.1 | in flames and would soon trap her upstairs. People were shouting for Margaret to come down |
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