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SAINTS AND ANGELS

Saint Margaret Mary of Alacoque (1647-1690) says: I had the happiness of frequently enjoying the presence of my guardian angel and also frequently being reprimanded by him… I could not tolerate the slightest immodesty or disrespect in the presence of my Lord sacramented, before whom I saw him prostrate on the ground and wanted me to do the same1 .

Blessed Ana Catalina Emmerick (1774-1824) affirms: My angel accompanies me frequently; sometimes he goes before me; others by my side. He is always silent or relaxed and accompanies his brief responses with a movement of the hand or with a nod of the head. He is bright and transparent. Sometimes stern or kind. I speak confidently with him and he gives me instructions. Next to him I feel a heavenly joy2.

Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) writes in her Diary: My angel accompanied me on my journey to Warsaw. When we entered the portería (of the convent) he disappeared… When we left again with the train from Warsaw to Krakow, I saw him again by my side. When we got to the door of the convent, he disappeared3.

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) was also very devoted to his guardian angel. During the First World War he was a soldier and one day, wanting to go to his town of Pietrelcina, he took the bus, but he did not have enough money. He trusted in providence, thinking of apologizing. But a strange character, elegantly dressed and with a new suitcase, came up with him and sat next to him. When the collector approached asking for the tickets, Padre Pio was worried, but the collector told him: «Someone already paid for you.» He looked at the neighbor character, but didn’t say anything… Upon arriving at his town, he got off the bus and looked at his partner to greet him, but he was no longer there. He recounted this event many times to his brothers, as if implying that God had helped him through his angel.

SANTA GEMA GALGANI AND HER GUARDIAN ANGEL

THE POSTMAN ANGEL

One of the most beautiful things in Santa Gema’s life is watching her angel as a humble servant who did all kinds of favors for her, even taking her letters to the post office to save postage. Normally, those letters carried by the angel were received by Father Germán by ordinary mail. But sometimes he received them by means of a little bird, under whose figure was his angel.

Father Germán wrote to Mrs. Cecilia to prove if it was really the angel who carried the letters: Regarding the angelic postman, another test could be done. When Gema has already prepared the envelope that I have spoken of, a sealed envelope, she puts the address and gives it to you. You take it and put it in a secluded place, placing an image of the venerable Gabriel on top, praying to the Lord that he be glorified in this his servant and that he does not allow the enemy to deceive anyone. If after three days the envelope is still in place, you will be kind enough to send it by post.

Mrs. Cecilia wrote a letter to Father Germán in which she told him: On the 12th a letter was sent to you. Has he received it? She referred herself this way. I handed it over to Don Lorenzo, who locked it up on the afternoon of the 12th. On the 13th at around three in the afternoon, I was with the spinning wheel, while Gema was with the child in her arms. Suddenly, she tells me that she has seen the angel pass by Don Lorenzo’s window with the letter in hand. I immediately ran to call Don Lorenzo, who had the key in his pocket, and I told him: «Let’s go immediately and see.» We looked and the letter was gone. Tell me immediately if he has received it.

Father Germán answered him on June 21, saying: I am currently receiving the two letters you mentioned in your most appreciated last letter. One brings the date of 12 and the other comes without it. The two arrived together. God is infinite charity. Why, then, marvel at seeing him condescend so much to his creatures?

On June 22, 1901 Gema included in the same envelope, to entrust it to the angel, two different letters: one for Father Germán and the other for Mother Josefa. Gema handed them over to Mrs. Cecilia. And Mrs. Cecilia, according to orders received from her, first hid the envelope in Don Lorenzo’s room (a priest who lived in the same house). Then they moved the envelope to the most hidden and impenetrable place in the house, placing it between two images, one of San Gabriel de la Dolorosa and another of San Pablo de la Cruz.

The next day, at around two in the afternoon, Mrs. Cecilia was entertaining herself in the dining room, talking to her eldest nephew, when Gema shows up and tells her that she has seen the angel carrying her envelope. She went to the place where she had hidden it and it had disappeared.

Father Germán wrote to Mother Josefa saying: Both your letters and mine were delivered to me by the guardian angel. How? It is known that she spoke of a letter that she felt falling on her desk one night when her brothers were
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