ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 8th of March
SAINT JOHN OF GOD, RELIGIOUS
Saint John was born in Portugal in 1495. He spent an adventurous youth as a soldier. A sermon of Saint John of Avila turned his mind to the sufferings of the poor and sick, and he devoted the rest of his life to their care. He established hospitals for the outcasts of society. Gradually others joined him in his work, and his followers established the Order of Hospitallers of Saint John of God. He died in 1550.
PRAYER:
Father,
you who gave John of God
love and compassion for others,
grant that by doing good for others
we may be counted among the saints in your kingdom.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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