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St. Gemma Galgani

Feast 11 April

The stigmatic of Lucca. A Passion lived in a rented room.

St. Gemma Galgani

Sacred art

Statues and images

The portrait kept with St. Gemma Galgani is the image this library has of Gemma. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.

The whole treasury

Died 1903 at twenty-five. The wounds, the guardian angel, the ordinary Italian street. Canonized 1940.

Signs that name Gemma

If it belongs to Gemma, it is here, with a door back into the story.

St. Gemma Galgani — Lucca
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St. Gemma Galgani

LuccaStigmata 1899; died 1903

A young laywoman, orphaned, ill, refused by a convent, who received the stigmata on Thursday evenings and the visible marks of the scourging, and who died at twenty-five. Photographed, confessed, canonized.