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Married Saints: All Saints’ Day Edition
Happy All Saints’ Day!
In honor of this wonderful feast, I decided this month’s Married Saints blog would be a little different. Today I want to explore several of our saints to give you an overview of wonderful patrons you might not have considered for your marriage before.
The Rosary Can Change the World
I'm just going to say it: I'm really bad at praying the rosary. I suffer from chronic wandering mind, and no matter how much I set myself up for success, I can't seem to turn it off. It's not even that I'm easily distracted, like putting my phone in another room would do the trick. Any time I'm in a silent, distraction-free space, my mind latches onto whatever problems I think I need to solve at that moment.
Saints Who Married Saints: Louis Martin & Marie-Azélie “Zélie” Guérin
Have you figured out how you know about Sts. Louis and Zélie yet? Their youngest daughter was born on January 2, 1873, and was not expected to survive long outside the womb. After their four losses already, Zélie and Louis prepared for the worst. Zélie wrote, “I have no hope of saving her. The poor little thing suffers horribly … It breaks your heart to see her.”2 But this little girl grew stronger and became a Carmelite nun.
Saints Who Married Saints: Isidore & Maria de la Cabeza
Isidore and Maria show the beautiful complementarity of spouses. Isidore worked the fields, evangelizing with his actions, while Maria prepared to continue serving God’s people from the home. Without Isidore there would be no one to feed, but without Maria there would be no food to give.
Saints Who Married Saints: Zechariah & Elizabeth
Elizabeth’s words would be repeated for millennia to follow, memorialized in Scripture and with every Catholic reciting them a seemingly infinite number of times over our lives: Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Saints Who Married Saints: Luigi & Maria Beltrame Quattrocchis
The legacy they left behind is summed up best in the words of Pope St. John Paul II: “The blessed couple lived an ordinary life in an extraordinary way.”
July Update 2021
It’s been a super successful July and I just wanted to give everyone some updates, details, and what to expect from Covenant moving forward. Be sure to read all the way to the end for some exciting news!