Saint Bona of Pisa

Memorial

• 29 May

Profile

Mystic and visionary from her childhood. Augustinian tertiary by age 10. Pilgrim to the Holy Lands at age 14, travelling to see her father who was fighting in the Crusades. On the way home she was captured and imprisoned by Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean, but was rescued by fellow Pisan Christians. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy. Pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela, Spain nine times, leading groups of pilgrims each time, which led to several of her areas of patronage.

Born

• c.1156 at Pisa, Italy

Died

• c.1207 at Pisa, Italy of natural causes

Patronage

• air hosts
• air hostesses (chosen by Pope John XXIII in 1962)
• air stewards
• couriers
• flight attendants
• guides
• pilgrims
• Pisa, Italy
• stewardesses
• travellers

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Saint Bona of Pisa“. Saints.SQPN.com. 17 April 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>