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Hey there, Sprouts, today is Thursday, January 27th, 2020.

It is also the feast day of St. Angela Marachi from Italy.

Now, all week we have been talking about saints who are celebrating feast days this week.

Monday was the feast day of St. Francis de Sales.

Tuesday was the feast of the conversion of St. Paul.

Yesterday, we talked about two of St. Paul's friends who had their feast days yesterday,

and their names were Timothy and Titus.

And today, we're skipping forward 1,400 years to talk about a little Italian girl named St. Angela Marici. No, St. Angela Marici, she grew up on a farm.

Her parents were farmers, but unfortunately they died when she was young, and she was sent to live

with a wealthy uncle. Of course, her siblings were sort of sent to all different places, so this

was a real sadness and trial for her. A few years after her parents died, her sister died.

And she was really worried that through all of this trauma in their childhood, that her sister

had not really been grounded in the faith. And she was worried about her sister's salvation.

However, she was given a beautiful dream of her sister encouraging her from heaven and encouraging

her specifically to help others know Jesus and his church better.

So eventually, St. Angela Marici was forced to leave her uncle's house.

She moved to a bigger city, and in that city, she was really disturbed to find that many of the

children and even the adults, they did not

know the faith very well. They had some terrible ignorances about the faith, and she knew that

they needed a better education. And so she began to take girls into her house and to teach them

in the faith. Eventually, this grew into an actual

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