Pope Clement X

The office and mass of St. Margaret had been confined up to this time to the limits of her own kingdom.

In 1673, her office was inserted by Clement X in the Roman Breviary, June 10th, as a semi-double festival, with the option to all clergymen, not Scotchmen, to say the ferial office on the day, if they preferred it.

The saint was at the same time declared to be patroness of Scotland, second in order to St. Andrew the Apostle, and her festival was appointed to be kept in Scotland as a double of the second class.

The Pope granted this extension of the saint's office to the petition of Father Aloysius Leslie, the Jesuit rector of the Scotch College in Rome, in conjunction with the agent of the Scotch missionaries, and with the Baron Menzies of Pitfidels, who at that time represented the Duke of Moscovy at the Court of Rome.

The entire city of Lima came out to mourn her and it took days to bring her body to its resting place because of the many people who loved her.

45 years after her death, Pope Clement X declared her a saint, the first saint of all the Americas, the first flower of the new world.

The story of St.

Rose of Lima teaches us that suffering offered to Jesus is never wasted.

Patron Saint of the Americas, Peru, embroiderers, florists, gardeners, needle workers, and people ridiculed for their piety.

invoked against vanity and self-love, canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671.

Quote, Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase your love in my heart.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.