![]() ![]() Loving Father, I come before you trusting in your goodness, kindnessand the power of your healing love as I lift up to you my sickness. Visit the Catholic Doors Ministry website for more information.įor more Catholic prayers and additional resources, visit the EWTN website. Peregrine, pray for meAnd for all who invoke your aid. Perfect resignation to the sufferingsIt may please God to send me,So that, imitating our Crucified SaviorAnd His Sorrowful Mother,I may merit eternal glory in heaven. ![]() You labored manfullyFor the salvation of souls And in union with Jesus CrucifiedYou endured the most painful sufferingsWith such patienceAs to deserve to beHealed miraculouslyIn your leg by a touchOf his divine hand.Īnd to fulfill His WillIn all the events of life.Įnkindle in my heartFor the salvation of souls Deliver me from the infirmitiesthat afflict my body Peregrine,You answered the divine callWith a ready spirit,And forsook all the comforts of the worldTo dedicate yourself to GodIn the Order of His Most Holy Mother. Prayer To St Peregrine Patron Of Cancer Patients May the Spirit of Jesus bring us all health in soul and body, that with joy and thanksgiving we may praise you for your goodness, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Embrace us now in your loving care, particularly those afflicted with cancer, for whom this intention is offered. God of healing mercy, in Jesus your Son you stretch out your hand in compassion, restoring the sinner, healing the sick, and lifting up those bowed down. I would be here if I wasn’t sick.”įor information about the shrine, visit or call 77.Prayers for Those Who Suffer from Cancer – Through the Intercession of Saint Peregrine He and his wife attend the Masses and receive consolation and peace, he said. So many of the other people don’t live near here.” He’s also had many years of severe facial pain for which doctors have found no cure. Peregrine died May 1345 and was declared a saint in 1725.Įd, who asked that his last name not be used, was diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer over 13 years ago and has been attending the once-a-month St. He falls asleep and dreams this picture of Jesus coming off the crucifix and touching his leg and healing it,” Krymski said. “That night Peregrine goes to the fresco scene prays to Jesus, Mary and the Beloved Disciple, now for himself. “Over the years, he got these things called varicose veins and the one on the right leg became an ulcer, wouldn’t heal and became gangrene,” Krymski said.Ī surgeon was called, and he said he had to amputate the next day. He would take those prayers before a fresco of the Crucifixion, where he would stand for hours on end. He answered the doors all day and night to people asking him for prayers. ![]() Peregrine later joined the Servite community and was the porter of the monastery. That was a miracle through the Holy Spirit,” Krymski said. You’re a holy man of God.’ So the prayer was answered. “As he was walking out of town, one of the youth ran after him and said, ‘Father, I want what you have. It is said that Benizi prayed for the youths’ conversions. While he was preaching there, a group of teens began to heckle him, and one slapped him in the face. The pope closed the churches in Forlis because of the fighting.Ī Servite priest, Father Philip Benizi, asked the pope for permission to travel to the town and preach about reconciliation. Peregrine Laziosi lived in Forlis, Italy, in the 1300s, during which there was a war between the pope and the emperor over the papal states. The shrine publishes a newsletter and operates a phone ministry where people can call for intercessory prayers. Peregrine,” Krymski said.īeing a national shrine means providing spiritual support and relics of the saint to more than 90 St. “As I give them a tour of the basilica, they start telling me about their malady and I tell them you must have been called to come here because this is the national shrine of St. Others don’t know that the shrine is there but stop by to visit the basilica. ![]() “They all make a special trip because they hear this is the national shrine.” Not just from Chicago,” said Servite Father Chris Krymski, shrine director. In 1991, the Servites moved the shrine to the basilica, where Cardinal Joseph Bernardin blessed it. After that church closed, it moved to Assumption Parish, 323 Illinois St. Dominic Church near the now-demolished Cabrini-Green Homes. Peregrine belonged to, started the shrine in Chicago in 1955 at St. The Friar Servites of Mary, whose community St. The basilica is home to the national shrine and holds Masses in Spanish and English once a month to pray for healing through the saint. Peregrine, the patron saint of cancer patients. Jackson Blvd., to pray for the intercession of St. For over 25 years, pilgrims from the Chicago area and beyond have visited Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica, 3121 W. ![]()
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