Patron saints
Who Is the Patron Saint of Expectant Mothers?
Saint Gerard Majella · Feast day October 16
The patron saint of expectant mothers is Saint Gerard Majella, whose feast day is October 16.
Who was Saint Gerard Majella?
Saint Gerard Majella was a Redemptorist brother of the eighteenth century known for his humility and for many wonders of charity. Once, given a handkerchief by a girl, he told her to keep it, that she would need it one day; years later it is said to have saved her and her child in a difficult birth.
Why the patron of expectant mothers?
From that story he became the much-loved patron of expectant mothers and safe childbirth.
In the Word
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.Psalm 139:13 (KJV)
A note for all traditions: patron saints are honored in the Catholic and Orthodox churches as examples of faith and as friends who pray with us, never worshiped, for worship belongs to God alone. Many Protestant Christians honor the saints as examples without asking their intercession. Across all traditions, there is one Lord and one mediator between God and us, the man Christ Jesus, and every one of us, not only the saints, is called to holiness and to him.
All the saints point to Jesus, and so are you called
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