Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Talitha cumi"; which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." And immediately the girl got up and walked (she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.

Mark 5:41-42

"God, Who called me from the world into religious life, now calls me from Portugal to India… Not to answer the vocation as I ought, would be to provoke the justice of God."

– St. John de Britto