Marie Rose Ferron, Little Rose, with her mother. Each of her 14 brothers and sisters was dedicated to a mystery of the rosary. Marie Rose's was the Crucifixion.
Marie Rose Ferron (also known as Little Rose) was born on May 24, 1902, in the Central Quebec countryside. Rose's mother was seized by labour pains while she was working in the field and sought refuge in a nearby dwelling. So, like Christ, Rose was born in a stable. Mrs. Ferron dedicated each of her 15 children to the 15 mysteries of the Rosary. As the 10th child, Marie Rose honoured the fifth Sorrowful Mystery – the Crucifixion.
At age three, Rose began to have a special devotion to St. Anthony of Padua. If someone in the household lost something, she would invoke St. Anthony and with his help always found that which was lost.
When Rose was 4½ years old, her family moved to Fall River, Mass. As the family prepared to leave their near-empty house, they found Rose in front of a picture of St. Anthony telling him that she would not leave him all alone.
Rose stated that St. Anthony himself would tell her where to find lost articles. Her father did not believe in Rose and decided to give her a lesson. Upon returning home from work, he took his boots to the other side of the railway tracks. After supper, he asked Rose to hand him his boots. Rose dressed up, crossed the railway, and returned with her father's boots. From then on, Mr. Ferron never questioned her extraordinary relationship with St. Anthony.
At the age of six, Rose had already had a vision of the Child Jesus. She said, "I saw him with a cross, and he was looking at me with sadness in his eyes."
Rose wanted to become a nun, but in her teen years she became partially paralyzed and was confined to her home. Due to the progression of the paralysis in her legs, she was eventually completely bedridden. These were very difficult years for Rose. She later recalled: "When I was 17, one summer day, as the windows were open, I heard someone chattering and laughing down below. I leaned forward to see what was going on. There were a number of girls of my age; my friends and sisters were there. They were all dressed up in their Sunday clothes and leaving for the church. I heard them laugh from the window, they chatted, laughed, and joked. The life that bubbled from those young girls seemed to be the best the world could give, and when I contrasted their condition with mine, I was literally crushed. I saw myself miserable, destitute, and godforsaken; I thought of my infirmities, of my crutches. I was heartbroken. I wept bitterly. Oh, if you only knew how I felt!"
Rose met a priest who taught her how to suffer and sacrifice out of love for God. In time, Marie Rose resigned herself to God's will, and she accepted sickness as her vocation and even rejoiced for having been chosen to suffer with Christ. Her spiritual director stated that although she wept often, she was never discouraged.
In the 1920s, a group of obstinate people opposed and attacked Bishop William Hickey of Providence, RI. The bishop was obliged to excommunicate 56 leaders of the opposition. He asked Rose to make reparation. With tears, the bishop pleaded: "My child, will you suffer for the Diocese of Providence, for its priests, and for those I was obliged to punish?"
Rose answered, "I will do whatever you ask, I am willing to suffer as you wish and for the return of those you have excommunicated. I accept at once. It will be my mission to pray for their return."
Rose later said, "This affair will bear good fruit for both sides, and with Jesus I rejoice because of it." Remarkably, one by one, all 56 leaders repented.
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小羅撒接受痛苦
瑪利亞.羅撒.費龍（亦稱「小羅撒」）生於1902年5月24日加拿大魁北克省的近郊。她母親在田間工作時突感分娩疼痛，遂在鄰處緊急生產，促成瑪利亞.羅撒像耶穌聖嬰一樣，在馬槽出生。
父母共有子女十五名，母親都把他們分別奉獻給十五端的玫瑰經奧蹟。羅撒排行第十，便聯上了「痛苦五端：耶穌被釘在十字架上死」。
三歲的小羅撒，已經特敬聖安多尼，她常依賴聖人幫助她尋找家中失物，從沒有落空過的。
羅撒四歲半時，整家遷居美國的麻薩諸塞州（麻省）夥路河。臨離開加拿大空置的故居前，家人發覺小羅撒對著聖安多尼聖相承諾，不會把他掉下不顧。
羅撒嘗謂是聖安多尼本人親自告訴她失物在那裡，她父親當然不相信，有意給她一個教訓。一天，父親工作回家時，故意把靴子放在家對出鐵路軌的另一邊。晚餐後，他要羅撒把靴子遞給他，想不到羅撒居然穿好衣服，走過鐵路軌，把靴子拿回家，放在他跟前。從此，父親再不懷疑羅撒與聖安多尼的關係了。
六歲時，羅撒已曾看到聖孩耶穌：「我看見祂伴著十字架；祂注視我，目光悲傷。」
羅撒有意當修女，青年時卻因病走動不得，局限在家中，最後竟要長期留在床上，經歷難過的幾個年頭。羅撒記得在十七歲的一個夏天主日，窗外傳來歡笑聲。她凭倚到窗前，往外看到她的姐妹和一些年齡與她相若的少女，她們都穿著整齊的衣妝到聖堂去，邊走邊談笑，嬉戲甚歡，她們都散發著無比幸福的氣息。當時羅撒覺得自己的情況剛好相反：哀傷、困乏，猶如被天主離棄了一樣。她感到心碎立哽咽不已。
一位神父請羅撒因愛而把痛苦奉獻給天主。最後，她把自己徹底臣服於天主的聖意下，接受痛苦作為她的聖召，更因與基督一起受苦而喜悅。她的神師說羅撒常飲泣，但她從未氣餒。
1920代，一群固執的人，反對並襲擊普羅溫斯教區的威廉.希紀主教，主教被迫把五十六個主謀全部開除教籍。主教哭著請羅撒為他們做補贖，說：「我的女兒，你願意為普羅溫斯教區、各位神父，和被我被迫處罰的人受苦嗎？」羅撒答道：「我會遵從你的要求，我願意照你的意向受苦，並為那些被你開除教籍的人。我馬上接受。這將是我的使命去為他們的歸正而祈禱。」
後來，羅撒說：「這事將為雙方結出好果實。我和耶穌為此而喜樂。」果然，被開除教籍的五十六人，一一悔改。