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Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary, and I'm joined with Dr. Ariel Harms. Thanks for joining today.

Thanks for having me. I'm excited about this saint. We're going to talk about St. Maria Grady today. The hope of this podcast is to look at the lives of saints for sources of inspiration, hope, and encouragement on our own

earthly pilgrimage. So I have a particular devotion to St. Maria Grety. She is my confirmation

saint. And we have a beautiful image of her that we're looking at right now as well. So

love the saint. Thank you for sharing about her life with us today. Let's just begin with, when is her

feast day? When does the church honor her? So the church celebrates her feast day on July 6th.

Okay, a summer saint, that's fun. Yes. And what do we know about her early childhood,

where she's from? Let's start at the beginning. Sure. So she was born in October of 1890, and her parents were Luigi and Asunta.

She was the third of seven children born in a town called Coronado, Italy.

And her parents were farm workers.

Okay.

Another Italian saint. Yes, there's so many. There's so many farm workers. Okay. Another Italian saint.

Yes, there's so many.

It's a bluffland.

I heard actually that they have a better process than other places for getting people through the canonization process.

So I'm sure we have saints here, too.

We just aren't as familiar with the ways of Rome as they are.

That's right.

We have more red tape, I guess.

They know the red tape better, maybe the ways around it too.

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