St. Gemma buying Galgani Traditional Catholic Chaplet - Patron of Students, Pharmacists & Against Lung Disease - Genuine Swarovski Crystal Chaplet

This chaplet of St. Gemma Galgani has a medal of her likeness and is created with 25 beads representing her life on earth. The twenty (20) 8x6mm vintage Swarovski crystal beads are for her memorial day, April 1, and there are five (5) 8mm aqua blue Austrian crystals (each bracketed by two 5mm AB bi-cone aqua crystals) for her birthday on March 12. The loop is anchored by a lead-free Tibetan silver rose connector. The decorative rose spacers and bead caps are also lead-free Tibetan silver. The other spacers consist of 11/0 silver lined clear Toho seed beads and 4mm AB clear Czech crystals. This chaplet is strung on Accu~Flex Professional Heavyweight (43.9 lb. Tensile Strength) 49-Strand Softest Drape Beading Wire with Silver-Plated Findings and Nickel Silver Wire Bow-Tie Connectors. With ordinary use and care, this chaplet should last a lifetime and beyond of normal wear and prayer. I'll include a copy of the chaplet prayer (in handmade folding card form), a St. Gemma prayer card and a lovely organza pouch with your purchase.
PLEASE NOTE: Photo props are not included and are not for sale.

Memorial:
•11 April

A Brief History:
Eldest daughter of a pharmacist. Her mother died when Gemma was only seven and her father passed away when she was eighteen. Gemma was left alone to care for her seven brothers and sisters. Due to ill health and caring for her siblings, she never finished school. She was cured of spinal meningitis by prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, and Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque. She became a Passionist tertiary. Stigmatist, receiving the wounds on her hands and feet each Thursday evening through Friday afternoon starting in June 1899 and continuing into 1901. She saw visions her guardian angel daily, and had visits from Jesus, Mary, Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, and the devil who tempted her to buying spit on the cross and break a rosary.

Born:
•12 March 1878 at Borgo Nuovo di Camigliano, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Died:
•Holy Saturday, 11 April 1903 at Borgo Nuovo di Camigliano, Lucca, Italy of tuberculosis
•relics interred in the Passionist monastery, Lucca

Venerated:
•29 November 1931 by Pope Pius XI

Beatified:
•14 May 1933 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized:
•2 May 1940 by Pope Pius XII
•her canonization faced stiff opposition by those who either disbelieved or wished to avoid attention to her visions and stigmata
•recognition celebrated at Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

Patronage:
•against temptations
•against the death of parents
•against tuberculosis
•apothecaries
•against lung disease
•pharmacists
•students

Gemma Galgani from Lucca, most pure virgin, being in her twenty-fifth year, died of consumption, but was more consumed by the fire of divine love than by her wasting disease. On the eleventh of April, 1903, the vigil of Easter, her soul took its flight to the bosom of her heavenly Spouse. O beautiful soul, in the company of the Angels!” - inscription on the marble tablet that covers Saint Gemma Galgani's remains in the chapel of the Passionist Sisters in Lucca.

NOTE: The photos do not do justice to the beauty and clarity if these Swarovski crystals!