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I read a story the other day about Bishop Fulton Sheen. During an interview he was asked: 
“Bishop Sheen, you have been inspired by millions of people all over the world, who inspired you? Was it a Pope?”

Bishop Sheen responded that it was not a Pope, a Cardinal, another Bishop, or even a priest or a nun. It was a little Chinese girlof eleven years of age.

Bishop Sheen explained that when the Communists took over China, they imprisoned a priest in his own rectory near the Church. After they locked him up in his own house, the priest was horrified to look out of his window and see the Communists proceed into the Church, where they went into the sanctuary and broke into the tabernacle. In an act of hateful desecration, they took the ciborium and threw it on the floor with all of the Sacred Hosts spilling out. The priest knew exactly the number of Hosts in the ciborium; thirty-two.

Slipping past the guard at the priest’s house, she went inside the Church.  There she made aholy hour of prayer, an act of love to make up for the act of hatred. After her holy hour she went into the sanctuary, knelt down, bent over and with her tongue received Jesus in Holy Communion, since (at that time) it was not permissible for laymen to touch the Sacred Host with their hands.

The little girl continued to come back each night to make her holy hour and receive Jesus in Holy Communion on her tongue. On the thirty-secondnight, after she had consumed the last and thirty-second host, she accidentally made a noise and woke the guard who was sleeping. 

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