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October 21: ST. LAURA MONTOYA: Into the Jungle
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St. Laura Montoya left a comfortable teaching career to paddle upriver into the Colombian jungle for children nobody else was looking for. Convinced that the indigenous Chocó people were fully beloved by God even though society had dismissed them, Laura placed her entire mission under Our Lady's protection and set out with a small group of women in 1914. They lived simply among the people they'd come to serve, and Laura went on to become the first person from Colombia ever canonized a saint. "Laura believed they were children of God. She believed that meant they c...
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The trees on both sides closed in like walls.
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast where we know that every day is a feast day. It's October 21st, so join us for St. Laura Montoya into the jungle. The canoe traveled upriver into the Colombian jungle. The trees on both sides closed in like walls.
Laura Montoya was 40 years old and sat in the bow of the boat, watching the water darken under the shade of the canopy. She had been told this was foolish. Civil authorities had put up obstacles.
Church officials had questioned her plan. Her friends had worried. And yet the indigenous people of Chocau, the people she wanted to find, have been dismissed by most of Colombian society as uncivilized, unreachable, and not worth the effort.
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