Description:
This holy card features a beautiful Catholic image on the front with a distinctive gold foil stamping design around the edge. It includes a prayer on the back.
Item No.: AM-MC024
Features:
- Patron Saint of Diabetes
- Image of St. JosemarÍ A Escrivá.
- Healing Medal Set
- Includes a full-color Holy Card with Two Healing Prayers, a Saint Biography, and an Oxidized Silver Patron Saint Medal.
- Holy Card: Full-Color Cardstock 2 1⁄2" W x 4" H (closed)
- 5" W x 4" H (open)
- Saint Medal: Oxidized Silver 1" H
- 6 Pieces Per Package
Story & Symbolism:
Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of lay people and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness by God and that ordinary life can result in sanctity.
He died June 26, 1975, of natural causes and was canonized on October 6, 2002.
Saint Josemaría Escrivá is recognized today as the patron of those who suffers from diabetes. His feast day is June 26th.