Blessed Imelda

Today's saint is one that I just read about this weekend and thought I would share.  Her name is Blessed Imelda.  From the time she was a young child, Imelda was very pious and loved to pray.  By the age of 5 she was asking to be permitted to receive Our Lord in the Eucharist.  At that time, however, First Communion was not permitted until one was a teenager.  At the age of 9, she expressed a desire to enter religious life and was permitted to go to live with a convent of Dominican Sisters.  She still had a fervent desire to receive the Eucharist.  One day after Mass, when she was 11, she stayed behind in the Chapel praying. The nuns were startled to see a radiant Host suspended in the air above Imelda's head.  They called for the priest.  In the face of such a miracle, he could do nothing else but offer her her First Holy Communion.  She was so overcome with joy at receiving the sacrament, that she died of love.  Her feast day is May 13.