ST MARÍA ANGÉLICA PÉREZ, VIRGIN - 20 MAY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY

Saints celebrated on the 20th of May

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST MARÍA ANGÉLICA PÉREZ, VIRGIN 

María Angélica Pérez was born on August 17, 1897 in Buenos Aires to Spanish immigrants Augustín Pérez and Ema Rodriguez as the fifth of eleven children. 

RELIGIOUS LIFE

María entered a religious congregation on December 31, 1915 and received the habit on September 2, 1916, "María Crescentia" being her name in religion. She made her vows on September 7, 1918. She worked as a teacher, a catechist to children and finally in a hospital; some of the patients there suffered from tuberculosis. 

A SOURCE OF HAPPINESS AND COMFORT

She caught an infectious lung disease. As her health declined she was assigned to a hospital in Vallenar in Chile in 1928 and was perceived as a source of happiness and comfort to the patients. She died in hospital of lung disease on May 20, 1932. 

HER REMAINS WERE FOUND TO BE INCORRUPT

In 1966, her remains were found to be incorrupt upon inspection and were taken to Quillata. She was reinterred in the college chapel in Huerto de Pergamino in her homeland of Argentina on July 26, 1986.

María was beatified on November 17, 2012 and canonised on May 17, 2013.

(Source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Ang%C3%A9lica_P%C3%A9rez)