Saint Gemma Prayer Cards

We ask for Saint Gemma to interceed with these prayer cards, particularly against temptation Life was very difficult for Gemma as at a very young age she was left to care for her seven siblings as well as having very poor health due to a battle with spinal meningitis. Both her parents died, her mother when she was seven and her father when she was eighteen. Wanting to join the sisterhood, but was denied due to her poor health, Gemma was not deterred from a life in devotion to Christ. It is said that her meningitis was cured in a miracle of prayer to the Sacred Heart.