Gemma Umberta Maria Galgani, also known as Gemma of Lucca, was an Italian mystic, canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church in 1940. She has been called the "daughter of the Passion" because of her profound imitation of the Passion of Christ. She is especially venerated in the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus (Passionists).

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• Students
• Pharmacists
• Paratroopers
• Parachutists
• loss of parents
• those suffering back injury or back pain
• those suffering with headaches/migraines
• those struggling with temptations to impurity
• those seeking purity of heart

1878-03-12

1903-04-11

canonized

2 May 1940

Pope Pius XII

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