served by the Congregation of the Passion (CP)
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Ardoyne, Belfast served by the Congregation of the Passion (CP) |
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Fr Aidan Troy CP
Fr Salvian
Maguire CP Holy Cross Church Crumlin Road Belfast BT14 7EA Northern Ireland
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Gemma Galgani
One of the devout women of the city wanted to make the jubilee mission but she did not want to miss the June services at the church of the Visitation in honour of the Sacred Heart which she had been attending. Finally when these devotions closed at the end of June she did go to the cathedral for the mission. To her surprise she saw the missionaries wearing the same religious habit the Passionist youth Gabriel Possenti was wearing when he appeared to her. From that day on she did not miss one mission service. Finally she got up enough courage to talk to one of the missionaries, Father Cajetan. This was the first time she spoke to a Passionist. This young woman was Gemma Galgani, the mystic of the Passion. Hers is an important part of the Passionist story. It begins near Lucca some twenty years before the Holy Year mission. On March 12, 1878, a girl was born to Henry and Aurelia Galgani in Camigliano, near Lucca. She was given the name of Gemma. Gemma was eight when her mother died. The following year she received her first Holy Communion. Gino, her seminarian brother, died in 1894. Three years later her father died, in dire financial straits from throat cancer. Gemma was left an orphan and without support. |
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