Meet in today’s article Saint Alice, Belgian nun also known as Aleydis in French, she was a Flemish nun, mystic and Cistercian, she is venerated as the patron saint of the blind, also of the paralysed, learn these facts and many more below.
History of Saint Alice
Saint Alice, also known as Aleydis, was born in 1204 in Shaerbeck, a small town near Brussels in Belgium. St Alice lived a regular life every day until the age of seven. At that age, she decided to enter a Cistercian convent called Camera Sanctae Mariae. Another saint with an interesting biography is Saint Paschal Bailon.
She spent the rest of her life in this convent. Saint Alicia was known for her humility and was well respected by the Cistercian community for this reason, as well as for the inspiration she gave to her followers.
Shortly after becoming a teenager, Alice fell ill with leprosy. This saddened St Alice because she had to keep to herself all the time. However, despite her suffering, she did not let it get her down.
Alice’s health deteriorated to the point that she became blind and paralysed. St Alice’s faith remained strong even after her health problems were so life-changing. She found support in the Holy Eucharist to help her cope with her pain.
St Alice loved to receive the Eucharist and feel closer to God (see: God’s Promise in the Catholic Bible). It brought her peace for a time and was her only real escape from her physical suffering. Learn more about the biography of Saint Alicia in this video, it is very interesting, don’t miss it, it will give you some facts you surely don’t know about this interesting saint.
The Lord began to appear to St Alice, telling her not to worry about her illnesses because she would be saved in heaven. Her visions became regular and Alice became very spiritual and in touch with the Lord by receiving the Eucharist and meditating deeply on her visions. St Alice died on 11 June 1250 at the age of 46.
Feast of St Alice
On 1 July 1702, Pope Clement XI granted the Foglianti of the Italian Congregation of Saint Bernard the faculty to celebrate her memorial; in 1870, the cult was extended to the entire Cistercian Order, and in 1907, by Pope Pius X, to the dioceses of Belgium. The particular calendar of the Archdiocese of Malines-Bruxelles places the feast day of Saint Alice on 15 June and that of the Cistercian Order on 12 June.
In the Roman Martyrology we read of her glorification on the day of the dies natalis (11 June). In the monastery of La Cambre, near Brussels, in Brabant, in present-day Belgium, Saint Alice, a virgin of the Cistercian Order, struck with leprosy at the age of twenty-two, was forced to live in seclusion, and in recent years no part of her body had remained healthy except her tongue.
Prayer To Saint Alice
Many people when they are affected by blindness and paralysis resort to prayer to this saint, if you have a problem of this type do not hesitate to turn to this saint and ask for her intercession before God our Lord, if you want another option can make the prayer to St Michael the Archangel to undo witchcraft is also very powerful
O Alice, bright and energetic, we implore you to examine our sins. Deliver us from the terrible past of racism, injustice and segregation. Do not let us fall into beer and strong drink, which make men’s morals slip like their trousers.
Give our young girls witty jokes to tell our children to forget their needs. Give us more precious knowledge from beyond. We know that through the miracle of the internet your influence can reach much of the world, St Alice intercede for us before our Lord. Amen.
There are a lot of prayers that serve to help us in times when we need it, also there are just to give thanks, if you want to learn another very powerful is the prayer to St Benedict for work very powerful.
