St. Narcisa De Jesus Martillo Moran
St. Narcisa De Jesus Martillo Moran
1832 - 1869
Beatified By: 25 October 1992, Rome, Italy by Pope John Paul II
Canonized By: October 12, 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
Orphaned at an early age, Narcisa Martillo Moran, of Nobol, Ecuador, worked as a seamstress to contribute to the support of her brothers and sisters. Supported by the guidance of several spiritual directors, she resolved to consecrate her virginity to Christ and to spend the rest of her life offering prayers and penances to God in expiation for mankind’s sins. Although she remained a laywoman, Narcisa followed a demanding daily schedule of eight hours of prayer, offered in silence and solitude. In addition to imposing upon herself an austere diet and very humble living quarters, she devoted four hours of the night to various forms of mortification, including the wearing of a crown of thorns. Narcisa was frequently seen in a state of ecstasy. She spent the concluding months of her life in Lima, Peru, where she died on December 8, 1869 at the age of thirty-seven.
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I had the priviledge of seen her sacred body still intact in Ecuador. For which i.m blessed. I got to know her family as well. She earned her santitude. Thank God for Narcisita de Jesus.
saint narcisa please i beg of you please help me pray intercede for me before the Lord , Our God please help me pray for my healing and the healing of my husband... please help me pray to be a citizen of this country