St. Gianna Beretta Molla

When I first saw this image at one of the side altars in the beautiful Shrine Church at Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine in La Crosse Wisconsin, I thought it looked somewhat out of place.  It is beautiful, but the central woman is dressed in a modern doctor's uniform.  After a few moments of standing before the painting, there was something vaguely familiar about the story if was portraying.  Then the tour guide began to explain the painting, and of course it is a picture of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, who died only in 1962 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2004.  You can read about the life of St. Gianna here.  A truly heroic modern Saint.  Saint Gianna, Pray for us!