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September 19: ST. EMILY DE RODAT: A School in One Small Room
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St. Emily de Rodat turned her own small bedroom into a classroom after overhearing poor mothers worry about their daughters. Unsure of her calling for years, Emily overheard a group of poor women in 1815 worrying that their daughters had no one to teach them the faith — and opened her own room as a school within days. Despite mockery, serious illness, and years of spiritual dryness, the single classroom grew into thirty-eight schools serving thousands of children. "She trusted that staying faithful mattered more than feeling close to God every moment." Want to keep li...
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She was simply nearby one ordinary day when a group of poor women started talking among
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast, where we know that every day is a feast day. It's September 19th, so join us for St. Emily de Rota and a school in one small room. Emily wasn't trying to overhear the conversation. She was simply nearby one ordinary day when a group of poor women started talking among
themselves. They were worried and a little ashamed. Their daughters, they had said, had no one to teach them about God, no school, no one to prepare them for the sacraments, nothing.
It was just a passing conversation to them. But to Emily, who overheard, it was a call from heaven itself. Before the week was out, she had turned her own small room into a classroom and began filling it with students.
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