page_title: Gerard Majella
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Gerard Majella / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Trinity, Indiana) - St. Gerard Majella statue
context_page_description: Gerard Majella, C.Ss.R., was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
  His intercession is sought for children, unborn children, women in childbirth, mothers, expectant mothers, motherhood, the falsely-accused, good confessions, lay brothers and Muro Lucano, Italy.
context_section_description: St Gerard's Church in Wellington, New Zealand, built in 1908, was the first church to be dedicated to him.
  There are two churches dedicated to St. Gerard Majella one situated in Sapugahawatte - Dodangoda and another in Kirimatiyana, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka.
  The Sanctuary of San Gerardo Maiella is a basilica in Materdomini, Italy dedicated to him.
  In England, there is a church dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and to St. Gerard Majella in Preston, Lancashire. There is also a church dedicated to him in Bristol.
  The Senior Coroner for Liverpool and Wirral sits at the Gerard Majella Courthouse in Liverpool.
  In Scotland, there is a church and primary school dedicated to St Gerard Majella in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, opened in 1971 & 1973 respectively. The maternity hospital, now a housing estate, was located close by, hence the choice of name of church and school. 
  In Hollis (in the Borough of Queens), New York City, there is a Catholic parish dedicated to him.
  In Kirkwood, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis), there is a Catholic parish dedicated to him; the includes a school from prekindergarten to Grade 8.
  In the Del Rey section of Los Angeles, there is another Catholic parish dedicated to him.
  Two towns in Quebec, Canada, are named in his honour: one in the Montérégie region and another in the Lanaudière region.
  In Ghent (Belgium) a model school was named after Saint Gerard. This school was exhibited on the world exhibition of 1913 in Ghent as a model for Belgium's future school buildings. In 1914 it was rebuilt after the exhibition with the same stones. Nowadays the Saint Gerard School is used by a charity organisation "Geraarke" (local name) which supports poor people with clothes and food packages.
  In Nigeria, there is a shrine dedicated to St Gerard Majella at a place called Oba, in Anambra State. It was given to the Redemptorists of the Vice-Province of Nigeria by the Archbishop of Onitsha, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke. The Redemeptorists also built a school for the poor and most abandoned in the shrine site dedicated to St Gerard Majella.  
  St Gerard Majella Church in Westminster, Western Australia is on the corner of Majella Road. 
  He was featured on an Italian 45-eurocent postage stamp in May 2005.
caption: Statue of Gerard Majella at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Trinity, Indiana
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