Blessed Alda of Siena

Also known as

• Aldobrandesca
• Aude
• Blanca
• Bruna

Memorial

• 26 April

Profile

Married lay woman. Widow. Tertiary of the Holy Humility of Mary. She devoted her life to personal penance and charity to the poor, was given to religious ecstasies, and received visions. Greatly honoured in Siena, Italy.

Born

• 1249 at Siena, Italy

Died

• 1309

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Alda of Siena”. Saints.SQPN.com. 25 April 2012. Web. 21 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-alda-of-siena/>