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Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed,

inspired, and intentional. I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. When I decided to do the Friday Saint's

for Women's History Month

as part of the Catholic Feminist, I had a hard time

narrowing down the Saints I wanted to do. There are so many phenomenal women in

the history of the Catholic Church, but one woman that stuck out that I knew I wanted to

cover was St. Zayley Martin.

The only thing was I had a really hard time tracking down an expert of her. I was calling authors and

shrines, I put out public calls on social media, but I was never able to connect with

someone who would have been able to come on the podcast in the time that we needed them to.

So I thought, why don't I learn more about St. Zaley and share it with you personally?

I talk on this show all the time about how I'm really not an expert in much, except for how to hand out Annie's chatterbunnies to my two toddlers.

So I think doing a little research on a saint that I love and want to learn more about and

turning around and sharing that research with you is a way to show that we are truly all on this

journey together, this journey of learning about amazing Catholic women in the past.

And so today let's dive in and learn a little more about St. Zaley Martin.

To start off with, here is a little bit of my own Saint-Zaley story.

When I was in college and I was first coming around back to the church

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