“The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.”
Saint Gianna Molla
Italian pediatrician, wife and mother who refused both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she became ill while pregnant with her fourth child, as a result she died shortly after the birth of her daughter. Her husband and daughter were present at her canonization. The first time in the history of the Church that a husband witnessed his wife's canonization.
(1922 - 1962)