Prayers to Saint Lidwina for Health and Chronic Illnesses

About this book

With a holiness inseparably united to a long, painful, and progressive illness, Saint Lidwina of Schiedam has been, for centuries, a great intercessor for those facing health problems and chronic illnesses. Born in Holland in 1380, at the age of fifteen she suffered a fall while ice skating and, according to traditional biographies, from then on she never recovered her health, spending approximately thirty-eight years amid pain, paralysis, fever, wounds, and extreme weakness. Prayers to Saint Lidwina for Health and Chronic Illnesses offers a devotional collection of supplications, meditations, and prayers of intercession for those seeking spiritual comfort in the midst of illness. It includes a healing novena and spaces to write down intentions, making it a resource of faith for asking for strength, patience, hope, and Christian acceptance of the cross. This book is intended for the chronically ill, people with persistent pain, caregivers, family members, and all those who wish to turn to Saint Lidwina as the patroness of those who suffer prolonged ailments.