Life of Saint Gerard Majella: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Life of Saint Gerard Majella by Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 23 original MP3 tracks, 5:57:43 running time and a link to listen.
Life of Saint Gerard Majella, credited to Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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LibriVox recording of Life of Saint Gerard Majella by Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and humiliations. St. Alphonsus considered him a miracle of obedience. Although weak in body, he did the work of three, and his great charity earned for him the title of Father of the Poor. He was a model of every virtue, and so drawn to Our Lord in the tabernacle that he had to do violence to himself to keep away. An angel in purity, he was accused of a shameful crime; but he bore the calumny with such patience that St. Alphonsus said: "Brother Gerard is a saint". He was favoured with infused knowledge of the highest order, ecstasies, prophecy, discernment of spirits, and penetration of hearts, bilocation, and with what seemed an unlimited power over nature, sickness, and the devils. His intercession is sought for children, unborn children, women in childbirth, mothers, expectant mothers, motherhood, the falsely-accused, good confessions, lay brothers and Muro Lucano, Italy. (Adapted from the 1919 Catholic Encyclopedia and Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Life of Saint Gerard Majella
- Author credits: Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 23
- Listed recording duration: 5:57:43
Catalogue topics
- Catholic
- virtues
- saint
- miracles
- gerard majella
- lay brother
Track guide
- 00 - Introduction — 29:27
- 01 - His Childhood — 12:45
- 02 - His Apprenticeship to a Trade — 11:33
- 03 - His Trials and Vocation — 14:52
- 04 - His Novitiate — 16:35
- 05 - His Extraordinary Gifts — 27:09
- 06 - His Journeyings To and Fro — 21:19
- 07 - Monte Gargano — 23:39
- 08 - His Visits to the World — 14:22
- 09 - His Charity During an Epidemic — 9:44
- 10 - His Interior Life — 19:11
- 11 - His Great Trial — 10:48
- 12 - His Letters — 13:09
- 13 - His Wonderful Life at Naples — 10:49
- 14 - He Is Called Father of the Poor — 11:17
- 15 - With Father Margotta Again — 8:01
- 16 - New Marvels — 17:56
- 17 - His Last Journey — 18:47
- 18 - The End Draws Near — 11:52
- 19 - His Last Illness — 12:48
- 20 - The Death-Bed of a Saint — 12:24
- 21 - Glorified in Heaven and On Earth — 18:05
- 22 - Prayers for Novena in Honour of Saint Gerard — 11:11
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