Born in 1845 – André Bessette, Canadian lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and saint.

“”His great confidence in Saint Joseph inspired him to recommend the saint’s devotion to all those who were afflicted. On his many visits to the sick in their homes, he would rub the sick person lightly with oil taken from a lamp burning in the college chapel and recommend them in prayer to Saint Joseph…When an epidemic broke out at a nearby college, André volunteered to nurse. Not one person died. The trickle of sick people to his door became a flood. His superiors were uneasy; diocesan authorities were suspicious; doctors called him a quack. ‘I do not cure,’ he said again and again. ‘Saint Joseph cures.'”

–from Saint of the Day: Lives, Lessons & Feasts, Foley