Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Hannibal Mary di Francia

So bread upon the table might not lack,
I brave the cold, the dripping sweat on back…
Oh, here it is today the food my children need;
Tomorrow’s dole our Father sure will speed.
I’ve often knocked on doors, a scant welcome bidden
My sentence stiff has scarce been hidden:
“Beware of him, the pest, he’s lost his mind.
Now let him suffer fate unkind!”
Discern my martyrdom, my flaming core;
No father loved his children more…
For you I God and man implore!
Saint Hannibal Mary di Francia
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Donald R. McClarey

Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.

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