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. 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
Name Meaning: good - latin
Patronage: air hostesses (chosen by Pope John XXIII in 1962)
couriers
guides
pilgrims
Pisa, Italy
stewardesses
travellers
Additional Information: For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Kirken i Norge - norwegian
Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon - deutsch
Santi e Beati - italiano
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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