It’s also very important and
effective to have a devotion to a Catholic saints.
Prayer to Saint & Catholic Therese
Prayers to Saint & Catholic
Benedict
Prayers to Saint & Catholic
Joseph
Prayer to Saint & Catholic
Philomena
Prayer to Saint & Catholic Francis Solanus,
Apostle to South America [Also interesting quotes on his miracles]
More will be added as time permits.
The Bible on Praying to a Catholic Saints [New 53 min. audio]
This audio contains
powerful evidence. It covers this
important issue from new angles and with unique points. In addition to covering the biblical basis
for the communion of saints, this audio covers the Bible’s teaching on
venerating relics, images and statues.
Saint & Catholic Francis Solanus (Apostle
to South America)
Saint Francis Solanus lived from 1549 to 1610. He was a Spanish Franciscan missionary to
South America. Though he is not
well-known in the United States, he is indeed to be classified as an extraordinary
Catholic saint. He was gifted with an
abundance of miracles. He converted and
baptized many natives and explored uncultivated regions. Here is a prayer to a
great Catholic saint.
Prayer to him:
“O powerful St. Francis Solanus, thou who explored and evangelized in the wilds of
South America, please assist me in the wilds of this world and obtain for me,
through our Lord Jesus Christ, the grace I ask of thee. Amen.”
(Specify your petition and then say
one Hail Mary in honor of Saint Francis Solanus)
Here
are some quotes about the life of one Catholic saint:
St.
Francis Solanus miraculously heals the mangled face
of a five-year-old girl and raises her to life: “…the five year-old
Maria Monroy had fallen from the second story of her
parents’ home. An iron latticework,
which she had dragged down with her in the fall, had put out one of the nina’s eyes, destroyed her face,
and split her skull. When picked up, she
was dead. The desperate screams of the
grief-crazed mother immediately brought the entire neighborhood to the scene;
but nothing anyone could do or say served to console the woman or assuage the
shock incurred when she had first glimpsed the ruin of her baby’s head and
features.
“Above the bed of the dead child there hung a likeness of Fray Francisco
[Saint Francis Solanus]. Only when the mother’s eyes
lifted to this picture was she somewhat calmed. Beginning to pray before it, she experienced
a sudden wild hope. Loudly she demanded
that someone bring her oil from Padre Solano’s lamps
– at once! It must have seemed quite
hopeless to the numerous onlookers, but to pacify the poor mother, this was
done, and the oil was applied to the broken little face and head. The miracle which followed worked
instantaneously! The eye returned to its
orbit, the break in the head closed, and little Maria returned to life with the
exclamation, ‘Jesus, remain with me!’” (Fanchon
Royer, St. Francis Solanus
– Apostle to America, St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson, N.J., 1955, p.
187.)
Saint
Francis Solanus miraculously crosses a river: “The river was wide and there was no boat to carry him to the
opposite shore. How happy were his
Indians in their belief that, for this reason, they would have their padre with
them a little longer. But he, it seems,
was hearing the voices which cried to him from the other side. For a last time he exhorted his dear Indios to persevere in seeking God’s grace, in the Faith,
and in love of neighbor; and he gave them his blessing. Then, lifting up his eyes to heaven, he was
elevated to ecstasy. He now spread his
mantle upon the water and embarked upon it without fear, and thus passed over
to the opposite shore, leaving those who had accompanied him as far as the
river in the extreme of astonishment.” (Fanchon
Royer, St. Francis Solanus
– Apostle to America, St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson, N.J., 1955, p.
117.)
His extraordinary
travels:
“The diligent apostle did not content himself with ministering to his own
converts, the Christian thousands about Socotonio and
Magdalena. As soon as he was confident
that their feet were firmly placed upon the Christian path of life, he set his
own to another immense tour which, owing
to the rigors of the terrain which he chose to penetrate, was to prove a
classic chapter in the marvelous epic of record-breaking travel and spiritual
adventure… while evangelizing and instructing the natives he might encounter in
the great wastes that stretched between the heroically founded stations. But this tour was so largely devoted to the
Gran Chaco that one imagines he must have known from the start that this vast,
still almost completely unexplored region was the prize for which he would
contest – alone and totally unsupplied with provisions of any sort.” (Fanchon Royer, St. Francis Solanus – Apostle to America,
St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson, N.J., 1955, p. 111.)
Witnesses
to his miracles:
“…eight hundred witnesses had presented themselves to testify under oath to the
saint’s prodigies. Among these, five
hundred and twenty were Limenos. The list included prelates, savants,
physicians, army officers of high rank, religious, and ladies of prominent
social standing. Also a witness was the
temporal ruler of them all, the Marques de Montesclaros,
Viceroy of Peru.” (Ibid, p. 183.)
St.
Francis Solanus believed that no man is saved without
Baptism. In his life, there is a story about a ship on
which he was traveling which came upon a terrible storm. This ship contained many religious, as well
as natives who had received some instruction from him but had not yet been
baptized. “They ran head into a violent
hurricane. Almost immediately the
cumbersome wooden ship went out of control, to become a mere chip on the frantically
churning seas… Water was now passing freely through the hold. In the midst of the tempest’s fury, the ship
was falling to pieces beneath them; and as there was but a single lifeboat
aboard, the disaster could only mean death for the majority of the company… the Captain made all haste to get the
Franciscans and some of the more prominent passengers over the side, that they
might be given this one last slim chance of survival [on a lifeboat]. Seeing that Fray Franciso
made no move to join his brothers in the boat, Juan de Morgana
implored him to hurry. There was space
for but one more. But the missionary had already decided that he could not leave his
stricken Negritos [the natives] to die abandoned in
their agony. Who could say that he might
not be granted the time to administer Baptism to some of them?...
[He said]: ‘God will not allow me to
save myself by leaving my poor brothers to lose not only the life of the body,
but also that of the soul, which is eternal.’” (Ibid,
p. 71.)
Thus, he clearly believed that they would not
be saved without Baptism, despite the knowledge or “desire” they had. So he risked his life to stay, to make sure
they were convinced of the faith and baptized.
He immediately went to work. “…
imploring [God] for the time to complete his holy mission, the priest
immediately went to work. There were so
many to whom he must administer the Sacrament [of Baptism], and under
circumstances which almost anyone else would have found quite impossible!” (Ibid, p. 73.)
As he continued to baptize, the ship was
actually broken into two by the hurricane.
“When the vessel had cleft in
twain, Fray Francisco [St. Francis] was hastily baptizing his Negritos. He barely
looked up as he heard the noise… Quite naturally there were many who were still
hysterical from fright and the misery of their half-submerged positions. But Fray Francisco was perfectly calm; and as
the fragment of the ship miraculously continued to stay afloat, one by one, the
frightened men edged into their places before him and the crucifix still held
high by an arm which should by now have broken beneath it. In
this manner the hours dragged on, and finally the Sacrament had actually been
administered to all who wished to receive it.” After days of struggling on the seas in the
face of the hurricane, God intervened with a number of extraordinary events
which allowed the vessels to survive. (Ibid, pp. 70-77.)