Servant of God Father Emil Kapaun Single Decade Rosary w/ Natural Gemstone Beads

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Fr Emil Kapaun
Single Decade Rosary
This single decade rosary has a 1" oval gold-toned medal with a full color picture of the US Chaplain Fr Emil Kapaun, who is on the path to sainthood. The medal was handmade in France. The 1-1/2" gold-toned St Benedict crucifix was made in Italy.  The chaplet itself was designed and handmade by me in our home in the USA.
All 15 beads are 8 mm, smooth, round, natural, genuine semi-precious gemstones. The Our Father bead is a Blue Adventurine and the 10 Hail Mary beads are alternating Tree Agate and Picture Jasper.
Chaplet measures about 9-3/4" long and comes gift boxed and with the following:
How to Pray the Rosary pamphlet
How to Pray the Divine Mercy
Carry Pouch
The 15 Promises of Mary card
Gift Bag and tissue paper
Fr Emil Kapaun prayer card
St Benedict prayer card
Father Emil Kapaun was born in Kansas in 1916 and was ordained a priest in 1940. He served as a parish priest for a few years then entered the US Army Chaplain Corps in 1944, serving in the final years of WWII, then in the Korean War where he was known for heroically ministering to dying soldiers on the battlefield and helping to remove injured men to safety, braving enemy fire.  He was captured in 1950 and yet even with the horrible conditions in the POW camp, he refused to give in to despair and gave himself entirely to the men. He dug latrines, mediated disputes, gave away his food, and even managed to steal food and smuggle medicines for the other prisoners.  He also resisted Communist indoctrination and continued to serve the men spiritually. He was most remembered by his fellow prisoners for his great humility, bravery, constancy, love, kindness, and solicitude for his fellow prisoners. "He was their hero... their admired and beloved "padre." He kept up the POWs' morale, and most of all, helped a lot of men to become good Catholics.
He developed a blood clot in the leg and suffered from pneumonia, yet still managed to perform an Easter Mass for the men.  Eventually he was sent to an area in the camp where sick men were sent - they received no care and were left to die - and he died there of malnutrition and pneumonia on May 23, 1951. He was awarded the Bronze Star with "V" for valor, the Medal of Honor, and Legion of Merit and was named a Servant of God by Pope St John Paul II in 1993 which is the first step in the canonization process.
The prayer cards which come with our rosaries, medals and pictures are home-made, created using a "greeting card" program on a computer and printed in full color on nice quality paper. Although they are not like the usual smaller professionally printed prayer cards, most of our customers prefer them since they are like a pamphlet with 4 "pages" and several images, prayers, patronages and often other information about the saint or Catholic devotion.
Visit our Ebay store for great religious medals on chains, crucifixes on chains, handmade rosaries and saint's chaplets, pressed flower pictures, and our own homegrown herbal products and potpourri (some items are seasonal).
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