SAINT OF THE DAY!

Agnes McAllister · Apr 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM

Pray for us Our Lady of Good Counsel! We need you!!

padraig · Apr 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM

peregrin said: ↑

... another Saint for today and the approved miracle
Saint Pedro de San José Betancur, OFB (March 21, 1626 - April 25, 1667)
Pedro de Betancur died on April 25, 1667, and his feast falls on the anniversary of his death. Born into poverty in Vilaflor on the island of Tenerife, he arrived in Guatemala in 1651 after running out of money mid-journey and working his passage on a ship. Too poor to eat, he joined the Franciscan bread line in Guatemala City. He attempted to study for the priesthood but could not master the coursework, and turned instead to works of mercy. He founded the first hospital and hospice for the homeless in Antigua Guatemala, a school for abandoned children, and the Bethlehemite Congregation, the first religious order founded in the Americas. He is known as the Saint Francis of Assisi of the Americas. He is patron of Guatemala and the Canary Islands.
◾The miracle accepted for his canonization was the healing of a child from Vilaflor, Betancur's own birthplace, who in 1999 was suffering from intestinal lymphoma diagnosed as incurable. The recovery was instantaneous and complete, and was confirmed by the medical experts of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints as medically inexplicable. Pope John Paul II approved the miracle on July 7, 2001, and canonized Betancur on July 30, 2002, in Guatemala City before an estimated 500,000 people.

Saint Pedro, pray for us.
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I am reminded of the Scripture:

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said unto them, “Did ye never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

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