Feast day: April 14
St. Lidwina of Schiedam
A Dutch girl crippled by a fall while ice-skating who spent thirty-eight years in pain, offering her sufferings for others and reported to live for years on the Eucharist alone.
Injured skating at fifteen, she turned a lifetime of illness into a ministry of prayer — and is honored both as patron of the chronically ill and of skaters.
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