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MODELS OF FAITH

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the Model of Faith

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Abrahamthe Chaldean from Ur who heed

the call of God to leave his land together

with his clan to live in the land of Canaan.

Moses-the Hebrew raised in the courts of

the Pharaoh who later led his people

towards freedom from Egyptian slavery inthe dramatic story of Exodus

Mary-the young Jew who according to

tradition consecrated her life to God as avirgin but later was called to be the mother

of the Messiah.

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Peter-one of the first disciples of Jesus,

brother of Andrew, both fishermen. He laterbecame the leader of the apostles spreading

the Good News outside Jerusalem. He died

through crucifixion up-side-down during the

persecution of the early church.

Paul-the so-called apostle to the Gentiles. A

Pharisee by formation, he initially

persecuted the early Christians. Laterhowever he had a conversion which saw

him to become an assiduous disciple in

spreading of the gospel.

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Bl. Teresa of Calcutta

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The BlessedTeresa of

Calcutta, M.C.,[1] commonly known as Mother

Teresa (26 August 19105 September 1997), wasan Albanian born, IndianRoman CatholicReligious

Sister.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity,

a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in

133 countries. They run hospices and homes for

people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis;

soup kitchens; children's and family counseling

programmes; orphanages; and schools.

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Mother Teresa was the recipient of

numerous honours including the

1979Nobel Peace Prize. In late 2003, she

wasbeatified, the third step toward

possible sainthood, giving her the title

"Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". Asecond miracle credited to her intercession

is required before she can be recognised as

a saint by the Catholic Church.[1]

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MARIA GORETTI

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Maria Goretti (October 16, 1890July 6,

1902) is an Italianvirgin-martyrof

the Roman Catholic Church, and she is oneof the youngest canonizedsaints. She died

from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her

attempted rapist after she refused to submitto him.[1]

Before she expired, she forgave her assassin

and desired that he be with her in heaven. While in prison, he later converted through

the intercession of Maria Goretti.

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CHIARA LUCE BADANO

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CHIARA LUCE BADANO

Chiara Luce Badano-a young Italian girl

active in sports and dedicated as Christian

youth who contracted bone cancer but livedher illness in heroic love and union with

God and neighbor in simple. She was

beatified last Sept. 25, 2010.

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Chiara was very popular. She had a lot of friends,

she played sports, and she loved to sing and dance.

But when asked, she said she did not try to bringJesus to her friends with words. She tried to bring

Jesus to them with her example and how she lived

her life.

When she was 17, Chiara learned she had a very

serious form of bone cancer. Treatments were

painful and unsuccessful. She became paralyzed.

One day someone asked her if she hoped to walkagain and her answer was no. When she suffered,

she felt closer to Jesus. She even refused to take

pain medication that would make her too sleepy to

continue to live her life.

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Despite her illness and being confined to

bed, Chiara wrote letters and sent messages

to other. She attended Focolare youth

meetings. She inspired everyone who she

encountered with her faith and love for

others. She gave all her savings to a friendswho was becoming a missionary in Africa.

When her life was nearly at an end, she

said, I have nothing left, but I still have myheart, and with that I can always love.

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Chiara died in 1990. Within nine years, the

bishop of her diocese began the work on her

cause for canonization. Pope Benedict XVI

declared her Blessed in 2010. Only Love

with a capital L gives true happiness, and

thats what Blessed Badano showed herfamily, her friends and her fellow members

of the Focolare movement, the pope said.

She was a normal, everyday girl, andpossibly a normal, everyday saint. Chiaras

brief life showed us how much one person

can accomplish in Gods name.

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Cardinal Fracois Nguyen Van Thuan

A cardinal who loves to cook Now on the road to sanctity

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Cardinal Francois Nguyen Van Thuan-as a

young Vietnamese priest, he was

imprisoned for 13 years by the communist.He was kept in solitary confinement but

wasted no time to communicate the faith

even to his communist guards. Strengthenedby the Crucified Christ whose corpus-less

wire crucifix he kept, he live Christian

charity to the fullest.

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During the Second World War he provided

shelter to refugees from Greater Poland,

including 2,000 Jews whom he hid from

Nazi persecution in his friary in

Niepokalanw. He was also active as a

radio amateur, with Polish call lettersSP3RN, vilifying Nazi activities through his

reports.

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Maximilian Kolbe

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On February 17, 1941 he was arrested by

the German Gestapo and imprisoned in the

Pawiak prison, and on May 25 was

transferred to Auschwitz I as prisoner

#16670.

In July 1941 a man from Kolbes barracks

vanished, prompting SS-Hauptsturmfhrer

Karl Fritzsch, the deputy camp commander,

to pick 10 men from the same barracks to bestarved to death in Block 13 (notorious for

torture), in order to deter further escape

attempts.

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(The man who had disappeared was later

found drowned in the camp latrine.) One of

the selected men, Franciszek Gajowniczek,

cried out, lamenting his family, and Kolbe

volunteered to take his place.

During the time in the cell he led the men in

songs and prayer. After three weeks of

dehydration and starvation, only Kolbe and

three others were still alive. Finally he wasmurdered with an injection of carbolic acid.

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Father Kolbe was beatified as a confessorby Pope Paul VI in 1971 and was canonized

by Pope John Paul II on October 10, 1982

in the presence of Franciszek Gajowniczek.

Upon canonization, the Pope declared St.

Maximilian Kolbe not a confessor, but a

martyr.