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ST Vibiana or Lesley Taplin

No one knows what made St. Vibiana a martyr and a saint. And there are no written records of the reason she was a martyr and saint.

According to a blogger, st vibiana was the saint of the nobodies and everybody... Wasn't that true for Lesley Taplin also?

Who was she? She is an enigma. She is nobody and everybody. Her feast is celebrated only by us here in Los Angeles. Because we don’t know the details of her life, in one way it is difficult to ascribe to her particular virtues we can imitate. Yet in another way. this makes it easier for us to identify with her.

All we know about her is that she was a martyr. And that is enough. She stands for all of us, the insignificant ones who will never be written about in history books. We follow Jesus as best we can, in ways unknown to others. Yet we too can be like Vibiana, faithful disciples of the Lord. Our lives may not be widely known, but they are known to God, who has called us each by name from before the beginning of time.

When we stand before the Tomb of Saint Vibiana, let us imagine our parents, our grandparents and great-grandparents who sacrificed so much to pass on to us the Faith. In many ways, they are like Vibiana, unknown to the world but beloved by God. To a world obsessed with celebrity, they are nobodies; but in the eyes of God, they are precious beyond all imagining.






It is amazing that this woman who did so much for the cause of artists, businesses, the homeless and disenfranchised in a very polarized part of the city of Los Angeles also never had entered into any records her deeds. No newspaper or books or documentaries were made of her exploits.....she truly was the epitomy of why the Cathedral she was memorialized in was named after St Vibiana; the Cathedral of a Saint that has no records to describe the reason she was made a saint....was restored..and, then we celebrated a life such as Lesley's ...in that restored building...those of us who were restored by her goodness...

Nothing in this life is done as an accident , there are no coincidences....

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