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Today is Wednesday, August 12th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the Ninth Commandment.

Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's wife. We've talked about how coveting means desiring and desiring to

possess another person. Now, we can never possess another person because each person is a unique

and beautiful creation of God and a true temple of the Holy Spirit. So all week we have been hearing about saints who are celebrating their feast days this

week.

And I want you to continue to marvel at how unique each story is and allow it to remind you

that each person you meet has a story.

And truly understanding their story is how we guard ourselves

from ever coveting or desiring to possess another person. Now, today we are celebrating the

feast day of St. Jane Francis De Chantal. Now, St. Jane Francis de Chantel. Now, St. Jane Francis de Chantel was French. And the interesting

thing about her life is that it took some pretty serious twists and turns. Now, St. Jane Francis

Deschantel is a more modern saint than St. Lawrence or St. Francis, but she lived over 200 years ago

in France. When she was just a year and a half old, her mother died. And then when she was only 21,

she married. Her whole youth, she had been known as a very pleasant and beautiful woman,

and she ended up making a very

beautiful marriage to a baron, who is someone with a lot of power and prestige in France, and they

lived in a castle. Throughout St. John Francis Deschantele was very committed to the Lord,

and she reinstituted daily mass in the castle while she lived there.

But she was only married to the Baron for seven years. In those seven years, however, they had six

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