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Ever since she was a child, she had suffered from terrible asthma and continued to her entire life. She died while laying down praying offering her life to God at the age of thirty-five.
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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
He died of an illness while caring for the sick at the age of thirty-five.

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Saint Bernadette-Guided by Acts of the Apostles

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Saint Bernadette-Guided by Acts of the Apostles

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Bernadette may have been guided by the Acts of Apostles by using the story of Peter curing the crippled man because she helped spread the Catholic faith to those who didn't know about the faith and reached out for others.
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Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys
She was guided by the story of the crippled man because she helped the poor and sick by healing them and teaching them about God and life lessons.

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Bernadette's poverty and sickness was a struggle to overcome because her sickness limited her from many opportunities in life. She had little to live with and had trouble breathing but turned to prayer in her time of suffering.
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Blessed Laura Vicuna
She became weak and her health declined when she was very young, but turned to prayer to get through her rough times in life.
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She was left in poverty and was sick. She always prayed about her healing and strength, but her sickness still kept her from lives  opportunities.

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Bernadette was born into a Catholic family of nine kids and lived a life of poverty. She had 18 apparitions of Mary. She had little education in school, but was very educated in her faith. She often had to work around the house to help her family, but did everything with love.
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Saint Marguerite of Bourgeoys
She was one of twelve children. At the age of 18, her mom died and she had to help out around the house and take care of her siblings.
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Saint Gianna Molla
She was born into a big Catholic family and was very educated in her faith. She grew up viewing life as God's beautiful gift.

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She was born into a Catholic and poor family of nine children. Four of the nine children made it to adulthood including Bernadette. Her family lived in an old mill in Lourdes but then had to move because of money. She suffered from very bad asthma and suffered her entire childhood but always turned to prayer.
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Saint Catherine of Laboure
Catherine was also born into a Catholic and poor family of nine children.
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Saint Faustina
She was also born into a Catholic and poor family as the third of ten children. Her faithful family had Bible studies often and she always turned to prayer during tough times.

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Saint Bernadette- Why is she a saint to follow?

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Saint Bernadette- Why is she a saint to follow?

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Bernadette shows us that being humble, loving, making time for God, our faith, and Mary will give us eternal happiness in heaven even in the midst of our suffering.
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Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys
She showed love by the way she cared for the poor and orphaned of Canada. She suffered from a raging fever for twelve days before she died but gave everything to God.

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During her visions of Mary, Mary told her she would live a life suffering on earth, but also told her from all her suffering, Bernadette would live a life of eternal happiness in heaven promised by Mary.
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Saint Juan Diego
Juan Diego also had a vision of Mary. Mary told him her plan for the Church and his faith life
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Saint Angela Merici
Angela Merici had a vision of Mary with her dead sister. This gave her courage that her sister was safe in heaven.

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After she had the visions of Mary, she didn't enjoy all the attention, so she went to the Sisters of Charity to learn how to read and write and live a life of humility. She strived to be a Carmelite nun, but her health was very fragile and kept her from joining.
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Saint Juan Diego
After his apparition of Mary, he didn't enjoy all the attention either so went to live a faithful life of humility as well.

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During Bernadette's life, religious freedom was a very tense and big conversation in the church. This impacted her life because she actively lived her Catholic faith in communities.
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Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys
She also actively lived her Catholic faith when she taught the kids of Montreal and helped in the hospitals.

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Throughout Bernadette's entire life, she turned to prayer and Christ during her most difficult times especially during her suffering of health. She relied on Christ and Mary and never gave up hope because she knew she would be eternally happy with them in heaven.
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Saint Maximilian Kolbe
He went through many hard and difficult times and relied on Mary and prayer to keep him faithful and courageous.

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The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was a part of the Catholic faith during her life. The church also started to recognize Mary and encourage the rosary more. Bernadette had visions of Mary and a very strong devotion to the Rosary so these events had big impact on her faith life and she had to live in courage.
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Saint Juan Diego
He also had a strong dedication to Mary and increased devotion towards her during his life.

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Bernadette's top 2 virtues she modeled were love and humility. She loved everyone and everything. She tried to spend every moment loving, and she was very humble when the church got involved with her visions of Mary.
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Saint Therese of Lisieux
Therese also modeled humility and love in her life. She did the smallest things with the most love,and never tried to be noticed. She was the daisy in the in a field of roses.
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Saint Teresa of Calcutta
She also modeled the virtues of humility and love while helping the people in the slums of Calcutta.