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Also known as

• Rosa of Viterbo
• Rosa of Vieterbo

Memorial

• 6 March

Profile

Franciscan tertiary. At age three she brought a person back from death. Preached in the streets from age ten. Prophetess. Had the friendship of birds. Was repeatedly refused entrance to the Poor Clares. After her death, Pope Alexander IV ordered her body laid to rest in the convent that had refused her.

Born

• 1234 at Viterbo, Italy

Died

• 6 March 1252 of natural causes

Canonized

• 1457 by Pope Callistus III

Patronage

• exiles
• people rejected by religious orders
• tertiaries
• Viterbo, Italy

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
• Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
• Wikipedia