Blessed Amata of San Sisto

Memorial

• 10 June

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Dominican nun, assigned to Rome. Helped found the Saint Agnes Convent at Valle di Petro, Bologna, Italy.

Died

• 1270 of natural causes
• interred in the chapel of Saint Clare, Assisi, Italy

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson