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Blessed Imelda Lambertini

(1322-1333)

Feast day - May 12

Patron of a fervent First Holy Communion

Blessed Imelda offers a charming study in child sanctity. It was on the occasion of her fifth birthday that Imelda asked her pious parents if she also could receive communion.

She already possessed a love of Christ, but she was far too young.

Imelda Lambertini - Wikipedia

With an understanding of what communion really means, she wondered aloud:

“Tell me, can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?”

At the early age of nine she entered the Dominican convent near Bologna. The one great desire of her life in those days was to receive within her breast her sacramental God. Custom had established the age of twelve as the proper time for little ones to receive First Holy Communion, and the convent chaplain would not listen to a suggested deviation from this rule.

Frequently did the child beseech her confessor for permission to approach the divine banquet table, only to Blessed Imelda Lambertini - Roman Catholic Saints HAHID