Saint Peregrine

By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

Saint Peregrine is commonly known as the Cancer Saint, since Our Lord cured him of Cancer of the leg. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to Forli, and his Shrine and gathered the information in this ebook on his life and miracles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Journeys of Faith
• Release date: Sep 13, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452377377

Bob Lord

Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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Saint Peregrine The Cancer Saint

Bob and Penny Lord

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Copyright 2010 Bob and Penny Lord

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St. Peregrine...The Cancer Saint

Cancer: the big C, killer, feared enemy

When Cancer strikes your home or your family, a bolt of fear shoots your entire body. There is a sense of helplessness that deteriorates into hopelessness. You pray hope against hope, it isn’t true. Then your prayers go from, Please Lord, don’t let it be malignant. to Please let them get it all out. to Please let the chemotherapy work. to Please don’t let him suffer. This monster strikes so rapidly, so brutally, it takes a healthy, virile, alive loved one and reduces him or her to a skeleton before your eyes. Your final prayer, in futile resignation is, Lord, take away the anger I feel.

My first encounter with Cancer

My mother called, one day. She said something was wrong with my dad; he didn’t close the kitchen cabinets after himself. They were alone for the first time; all the children had moved away. I said she was paying too much attention to everything he was doing. This did not seem like a major crisis, but I do remember having a funny feeling. Daddy was someone who could not leave a picture on the wall that was not exactly level! She telephoned the next day, and said she thought she better