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Friday, April 12, Second Week of Easter

ST. TERESA DE LOS ANDES (Chile, 1900-1920), Virgin, Carmelite nun
Chile's first saint was born Juanita Fernandez Solar to a wealthy and very Catholic family in Santiago the capital. After her First Communion
at 6, she received Communion daily. After reading the biography of St. Therese of Lisieux, she decided she wanted to be like her and devote
herself to prayer and sacrifice. She entered the Carmelite convent at age 19, then contracted typhus. She died shortly after she took her
vows. During her brief time in the convent, she wrote letters expressing her thoughts. In one of them, she wrote "Christ, so foolish in his
love, has driven me madly in love". John Paul II beatified her when he visited Chile in 1987 and canonized her in Rome six years later.
[Cardinal Bertone, who was in Chile after the 2010 earthquake, visited her shrine in the Andes on her feast day.]
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/041213.cfm


AT THE VATICAN TODAY

Pope Francis met with

- Eight more Italian bishops from the Tuscany region on ad-limina visit

- Members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission who are holding their annual meeting. Address.

One year ago today...
Benedict XVI was winding up his post-Easter rest in Castel Gandolfo and planning to return to the Vatican
one day earlier for the arrival of his brother Georg from Regensburg to join him on his impending 85th birthday.
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