Today we celebrate St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, an extraordinary missionary who founded the Society of the Sacred Heart in the U.S.

Born on August 29, 1769 in Grenoble, France, Rose was one of eight children in a wealthy, established family. She was educated by Vincentian nuns and joined a religious order at the age of 18. She began to aid and educate prisoners, the marginalized, and the poor during the French Revolution – a watershed event in modern European history that began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s. Her care for these people put her in grave danger.  


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By: Julie Bourbon
                 
Seeking God’s little ones is the primary mission of the Schmidt family, founders of the Servants of the Good Help. For nearly five years, Katie and Taylor and their seven children have been bringing the Word to communities in the region of Picota, San Martin, Peru (in the missionary prelature of Moyobamba), that have been left behind by the Catholic Church.
 
The region was in the grips of drug cartels until the early 1990s, and as recently as 15 years ago, Katie said, there was no priest in the region—the Church wasn’t let in.
 
“The Church is very new here. We have come as a family to go out to the lost, the unknown and the abandoned, in search of them, to bring the Gospel to them,” said Katie recently by telephone from Peru, where her children could be heard playing and singing in the background.

Enter into the Schmidts' story here..

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