St Gemma Age 7 with her younger sister Angelina
St Gemma Galgani
St Gabriel Possenti appears to Gemma
St Gemma Canonization -1940
St Gemma's Beatification 1933
St Gemma's signature -La Povera Gemma "I am poor Gemma"
St Gemma's Autobiography that the Devil tried to burn
St Gemma's tomb, Sanctuary-Monestary of St Gemma, Lucca, Italy
St Gemma's Mantle
Child Jesus Shrine in the Giannini home- Gemma used to place her letters to her
spiritual director here and her guardian angel would take them and deliver them.
The Giannini family -Gemma's adopted family
Monsignor Giovanni Volpi -St Gemma's confessor
Monsignor Giovanni Volpi -St Gemma's confessor
Tomb of Venerable Father Germanus CP -St Gemma's spiritual director
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Venerable Father Germanus CP -St Gemma's Spiritual Director
St Gemma Galgani statue
St Gemma statue
Holy death of St Gemma
St Gemma as a child -age 7
Lord Jesus Crucified, have mercy on us!
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray For Us!
St Gemma's parents, Aurelia (Landi) and Enrico Galgani
Closeup of St Gemma's Autobiography that the Devil tried to burn
St Gemma at School
For more pictures click here: St Gemma Pictures and Photographs page 2
***NOTE: You can click on most of the Photos to enlarge them
13 comments:
Hello,
Where did you get the great picture of Our Blesed Mother? Whose the artist and what year was it done? I'd love to get a copy.
Thanks, and God bless!
-Oden
Hi Oden,
I honestly don't remember where I got this picture. I'll see if can find out and if so I will post it here.
I hope you have a blessed Easter!
May God bless you and yours,
-Glenn
Yes, I agree, I loved the picture of Our Blessed Mother. This is one of the most beautiful I've seen!.
Thanks for posting!..
~Steve
Hi
Where can i get a relic of St. Gemma Galgani? Im Chatolic, I live in Mexico.
Hi Julio,
Email me for more info. My email address is gdallaire1@gmail.com
Hello, I just wanted to thank you for this incredible site! I have loved St. Gemma ever since I learned about her and I am always looking for more information about her. Your site is truly inspirational!
Hi Anonymous,
Thanks for your message. I am really glad to hear that you are enjoying the website.
May God bless you and yours,
Glenn Dallaire
I am an Evangelical minister but these are the things that make me wanna become a Catholic!! Father Damien, Gemma, Francis, etc.
Hello my Evangelical minister friend!
It is a pleasure to meet you. Thanks for your comments. It is wonderful to see that you have an admiration and appreciation for the Saints.
Surely their example of love for God and heroic practice of virtue is something this world sorely needs, as I am sure you agree!
May God bless you and yours,
Glenn Dallaire
+JMJ+
Loving greetings in Jesus & Mary;
Thank you for this beautiful & inspiring site about St. Gemma Galgani. It's often hard to find more than the most basic information on St. Gemma, yet so much about her life holds an important message for all of us in these spiritually dark times. Surely the youth of today need St. Gemma's example & intercession most especially.
Thus here are 2 questions, sent with the hopes that those who come to this wonderful website can answer them, please:
(1) Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the entire book "The Letters of St. Gemma Galgani", edited by her spiritual director Fr. Germanus? (I think these may be the letters she wrote directly to him on spiritual concerns.) Apparently this book was published originally around 1924 or so. I've tried 2 of the major internet sources for Used & O.O.P. Books , i.e. "Alibris" & "Abebooks", but to my surprise neither has even 1 single copy! Thus any advice or help anyone can offer would mean very much, & I'd be most grateful for your help.
(2) Next: Does anyone know why certain websites, as well as certain so-called "updated" Catholic calendars [including some online], are indicating that St. Gemma Galgani's feast day has been completely removed from our official Church Calendar? In the places where I've seen this, I've not even found any indication that the date has merely been moved from 1 day to another; nor even perhaps simply changed, say, from a regular feast day to "an optional memorial" or one of those other types of categories, et cetera -- no indeed: the claims I've seen lately are insisting St. Gemma as well as her feast day are both entirely removed in the same manner that certain other saints & their own days were, to, during the many days of confusion & misinformation in Vatican II.
Therefore, regarding this Question #2, if anyone can offer any substantive information &/or clarifications about the claims made by some sites & publications against St. Gemma & her official Feast Day, I'll be most grateful for your assistance.
With many thanks & prayers, in Jesus & Mary,
M.K.
Dear M.K.
Thank you for your comments.
I made a pretty detailed reply to your comment # 2 here:
St Gemma's feastday memorials
As for comment # 1, that is the Letters of St Gemma in English, they have never been published completely in English. Professor Rudolph Bell and Christina Mazzoni's Book "St Gemma Galgani- The life and afterlife of a modern Saint" has some of them. This is the only book with St Gemma's letters that is currently still being published and is readily availible. There are a few other English books on St Gemma that are out of print that also have some of her letters. In short, they are not all together in one book in English, however they are all published together in Italian.
However, I do have a pretty good amount of St Gemma's letters in English on this website, as you probaly saw, which I have obtained from various sources.
May God bless you and yours,
~St Gemma, pray for us!
Glenn Dallaire
i just wanted to thank you for your infromation on st. gemma. i'm soon getting confirmed and i have chosen st. gemma.
Hi Anonymous,
Thank you for you kind comments.
I am very glad to hear that you have chosen St Gemma as your Confirmation Saint.
St Gemma is a blessed friend in heaven and a extraordinary advocate wih God.and she can obtain for us, if we ask, many spiritual and physical graces that we need and desire from God. She offers up to Jesus the constant love that she bore Him while she was here on earth, and even moreso now that she is united with Him in heaven, and thus she can obtain for us many graces that we long for and desire.
And most especially, St Gemma can teach us how to love, and how to sacrifice and suffer out of love for God.
I wish you a blessed Confirmation and may St Gemma always be your special friend and advocate!
Union in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
Glenn Dallaire
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