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Today is Thursday, April 15th, 2021.

All week, we have been hearing from Meg Hunter Kilmer, as she tells us stories of remarkable saints that most of us, at least I, have never heard of before, and they come from

all over the world. These stories can be found in her new book, an audio book called Saints

Around the World. But here for now is another story. St. Dulci Ponce from Brazil lived from 1914 to 1992.

Her memorial is August 13th.

You would think that a woman who broke the window of a crashed bus to pull a dozen people to safety before the bus burst into flames must be some sort of superhero, right?

Well, I suppose she was, a superhero sister who used her powers to help save the poor.

St. Dulci-Ponchis didn't set out to be a hero. She just wanted to help suffering people.

So when she was young, she told the poor they could come to her house if they needed a snack or a haircut or some medicine. Even when she

became a sister, she didn't have big plans to change the world. No, Sister Dulce just wanted to do

small things with great love. So she fed one child, found a home for one

family, taught one man to read. Pretty soon, all Sister Dulce's small things began to add up to some

really big things. She started a school for the poor, an orphanage, and a nursing home, and she found homes for a lot of different

people. The trouble was, the homes Sister Dulce found weren't exactly hers to give away,

and her friends kept getting kicked out. Sister Dulcy moved them, from one abandoned building

to another until she finally brought them all home to her

convent. They lived in the chicken yard at first, but over time, Sister Dulce built up a whole hospital

that's still there today. Sister Dulce wasn't very strong. She had a really hard time breathing,

but she didn't let that stop her. If she found a man on the street who was

too weak to walk, Sister Dulce would pick him up and carry him to her hospital. If she found children

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