Feast day: April 8
St. Julie Billiart
A French peasant woman paralyzed for over twenty years who, even bedridden, taught the faith and founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to educate poor girls.
She was paralyzed and largely mute for decades, yet ran a hidden catechism school from her bed — and was cured the year she founded her teaching order.
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