World Diabetes Day: The saint who helps those suffering
Nov. 14 was World Diabetes Day, a disease that causes about 4 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization.
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Nov. 14 was World Diabetes Day, a disease that causes about 4 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization.
St. Rafael Arnáiz, who desired to be a Trappist monk but had diabetes, is considered one of the great mystics of the 20th century.
The Catholic Church considers St. Rafael Arnáiz Baron to be the patron saint of those suffering from diabetes.
At the beginning of the 1930s in Spain, a wealthy young man with access to all the pleasures of life decided to give up everything to follow Jesus — a decision renewed over and over.