Saint Ludmila

Feb 142010
 

[Saint Ludmilla]
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Daughter of a Slavic prince. Duchess of Bohemia, married to Boriwoi, first Christian Duke of Bohemia; the two were baptized by Saint Methodius in 871. They built the first Christian church in Bohemia, and tried to force Christianity on their subjects; they failed. Widow. Grandmother and tutor of Saint Wenceslaus of Bohemia. Gave a proper burial to Saint Ivan. Her daughter-in-law, Drahomira, jealous of the influence which Ludmilla wielded over her grandson, Wenceslaus, had her murdered.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Ludmila”. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-ludmila/>

Saint Jacoba

Feb 072010
 

Also known as

  • Jacqueline

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Born to the Italian nobility. Mother of two sons, grandmother of several children, all of whom she outlived. Widow. Franciscan tertiary. Friend of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Clare of Assisi. Legend says that Francis gave her a lamb that followed her back and forth to church, and would wake her in the morning in time for services.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Jacoba”. Saints.SQPN.com. 7 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-jacoba/>

Saint Ermenilda of Ely

Feb 022010
 

Also known as

  • Ermengild of Ely
  • Ermenhild of Ely

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Born a princess, the daughter of King Erconbert of Kent, and Saint Sexburga of Ely. Ermenilda was a pious youth with a strong prayer life. Married to the pagan Wulfhere, King of Mercia whom she converted by setting a good example. Queen. Mother of Saint Werburga of Chester and King Coenrad of Mercia, who abdicated to become a monk in Rome, Italy. Ermenilda used her royal influence to destroy the last of Anglo-Saxon paganism. When widowed, she became a Benedictine nun at Minster-in-Sheppy abbey, which had been founded by her mother. She served as abbess there and at the abbey at Ely, England.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Ermenilda of Ely”. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-ermenilda-of-ely/>

Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac

Jan 312010
 

[photograph of statue of Saint Jeanne
Also known as

  • Jane de Lestonnac
  • Joan de Lestonnac

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Married Gaston de Montferrant, Baron of Landiras, in 1572 at age 16. Mother of seven, five of whom lived to adulthood; two of the five entered religious life. Widowed at age 41, she ran the affairs of her estate and castle by herself.

Believing that her obligations to the world were finished, she entered a Cistercian house at Toulouse, France at age 46. She was not up to the rigors of the order’s discipline, became seriously ill, and wanted to die at the monastery; her superiors refused to allow it. On her last night at the monastery, she had a vision of Mary who presented an image of Jeanne helping lost children.

Returning to her estate, she slowly started this work with local women and priests which led to the foundation of the Sisters of the Company of Mary, devoted to the education of girls and slowing Calvinism. It was approved by Pope Paul V on 7 April 1607; Joan was elected superior in 1610. Today the congregation has grown to 2,500 sisters in 17 countries.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac”. Saints.SQPN.com. 31 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-jeanne-de-lestonnac/>

Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel

Jan 242010
 

[Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel]
Also known as

  • Maddalena Parvopassau
  • Maria Antonia

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Youngest of five children born to Giuseppe and Maria Antonietta Parvopassau. Her father was the head physician at the Civil Hospital of Alessandria, Italy, but died when the girl was still very small. Maddalena attended school in Turin, Italy, and then in a boarding school in Lodi, Italy run by the Ladies of Lorreto. At 18 she returned to Alessandria where she married Captain Giovanni Michel on 2 August 1877. In the next few years they lived in the Italian cities of Caserta, Acireale, Catania, Portici and Naples.

Captain Giovanni died of sunstroke during a parade in Naples in 1891, and Teresa sank into a deep depression. However, with the spiritual guidance of her cousin, Monsignor Prelli, she made a recovery and decided to devote herself to helping the poor. She first used her own home to shelter them, but the numbers soon out-stripped the house, and in 1893, with much opposition of her family, she sold it to buy an large old building which she rebult and renamed Little Shelter of Divine Providence. Other local women were attracted to her work, and on 8 January 1899 she and eight of her co-workers officially founded the Congregation of the Little Sisters of Divine Providence. She spent the rest of her life, 45 years, working to spread the Congregation and its mission to the poor. Today they have houses throughout Italy, Brazil and Argentina, running nurseries, orphanages, schools, hospitals, and homes for the elderly.

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  • if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Teresa, contact
       Piccole Suore della Divina Provvidenza
       Via Divina Provvidenza, 41
       00166 Roma, ITALY

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MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel”. Saints.SQPN.com. 24 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-teresa-grillo-michel/>

Saint Paula of Rome

Jan 212010
 

[Saint Paula]
Also known as

  • Paulina of Rome
  • Pauline the Widow

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Member of the Imperial Roman nobility, married to senator Toxotius. Mother of five children including Saint Eustochium and Saint Blaesilla. Widowed at age 32 in 379, she devoted her fortune and the rest of her life to spiritual development and care for the poor. Friend of Saint Marcella, Saint Epiphanius, and Saint Paulinus of Antioch. Friend, spiritual student and supporter of Saint Jerome whom she met in 382; he later wrote her biography. Pilgrim to the Holy Lands in 385. She settled in Bethlehem in 396 where she built churches, a hospice, monastery and convent where she served as the first abbess.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Paula of Rome”. Saints.SQPN.com. 21 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-paula-of-rome/>

Saint Blaesilla

Jan 212010
 

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Daughter of Saint Paula. Friend and spiritual student of Saint Jerome. Married in her teens to Furius, son of Titiana; widowed after only seven months, after which she consecrated herself to God. Student of Hebrew.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Blaesilla”. Saints.SQPN.com. 21 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-blaesilla/>

Blessed Eurosia Fabris

Jan 082010
 

[Blessed Eurosia Fabris]
Also known as

  • Eurosia Fabris Barban
  • Mamma Rosa
  • Rosina Fabris

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Born to a farm family, the daughter of Luigi and Maria Fabris, she grew up with the nickname Rosina. In 1870, when Eurosia was four, the family moved to Marola di Torri, Italy where she lived the rest of her life. She had only two years of school, forced to leave in 1874 at age eight to help her parents on the farm. Rosina learned dress-making from her mother. She made her First Communion at age twelve, and joined the Association of the Daughters of Mary at Marola. She was strongly devoted to the Holy Spirit, the infant Jesus, the Cross of Christ, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary, and the souls in the Purgatory. In her teens she taught catechism to children, and taught girls to sew. She received several marriage proposals but repeatedly turned them down.

In 1885 a neighbor woman died, leaving two children under the age of two, and Rosina began caring for them. She married Carlo Barban on 5 May 1886, and the two took in the children. The couple had nine more children of their own, and their home became a gathering place for all the children of the village; Eurosia received the new nickname of Mamma Rosa. Three of her sons became priests, and one of them was her biographer. Along with her endless work load as a mother, Rosa managed to maintain a deep prayer life. She was the core of her family in both spiritual and practical matters, and was known for her charity to the poor, feeding the hungry and nursing the sick. Widowed in 1930. Franciscan tertiary. Through her whole life her home was an ideal Christian community for family and friends.

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  • if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Erosia, contact:

    •    Fra Giovangiuseppe Califano, OFM
       Vicepostulazione
       Convento San Giacomo
       35043 Monselice (PD), Italy

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MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Eurosia Fabris”. Saints.SQPN.com. 8 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-eurosia-fabris/>

Saint Bertilia of Mareuil

Jan 032010
 

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Born to the Frankish nobility. Noted in her youth for her piety and charity. Married to Gutland, another Frankish noble noted for his own piety. Widow. She built a church dedicated to Saint Amandus of Maastricht, and moved into an adjoining cell where she lived as an anchoress the rest of her days.

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Bertilia of Mareuil”. Saints.SQPN.com. 3 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-bertilia-of-mareuil/>

Saint Werburgh of Bardney

Jan 012010
 

Also known as

  • Werburga of Bardney
  • Werburg of Mercia
  • Werburga of Mercia
  • Werburgh of Mercia

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Married to Ceolred of Mercia. Widow. Nun and then abbess at Bardney, England.

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  • c.785 of natural causes

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Werburgh of Bardney”. Saints.SQPN.com. 2 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-werburgh-of-bardney/>
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