St Gemma Galgani

Saint Gemma Galgani

St Gemma Galgani

"The Gem of Christ"

1878-1903

Saint of the Passion of Jesus

Welcome to this website which is devoted to Saint Gemma Galgani, the "Passion Flower". I hope that you will find in Gemma a friend in Jesus and a very special advocate before our loving God.

We can learn so much from Gemma, but perhaps the most important thing is the desire to love God with all our hearts. Gemma was not a person of half measures. She loved God with all her being. Her heart was all on fire with the love of God, and God was everything to her. To know Saint Gemma is to love her. It is impossible to read her writings and not be touched by the fire of her extraordinary love for God. As an example of her remarkable love we find in her writings that the blessed Name of Jesus occurs 1,982 times in her Ecstasies and 1475 times in her Letters, as her devoted Biographers point out.

So, let us learn from Gemma to "love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind and with all our strength." (Mark 12:30)

"She bore in her flesh the wounds of Christ" -Pope Pius XI

Born: March 12, 1878

Extraordinary Mystical Experiences begin: 1898
Miraculous Cure: Friday, March 3, 1899 -1st Friday of the month (Sacred Heart devotion)
Received Stigmata: June 8, 1899 -Vigil of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Died: Holy Saturday, April 11, 1903
Beatified: May 14, 1933 by Pope Pius XI
Canonized: May 2, 1940 by Pope Pius XII
Patroness of Pharmacists, loss of parents, those suffering back injury or back pain, those suffering with headaches/migraines, those struggling with temptations to impurity and those seeking purity of heart.
Feast Day: April 11th (or May 16th for those in the Passionist Congregation).

"All Your works shall give thanks to Thee, oh Lord, and all Your Saints shall bless Thee. Your friends make known, oh Lord, the glorious splendor of Your Kingdom." (Holy Bible, Psalm 145: 10-12)