Blessed Benvenuta Bojani
- Memorial
- 30 October
- Profile
- Youngest of seven daughters.
Refused to play any childhood games that smacked of worldliness or vanity; by age twelve she was voluntarily wearing hair shirts and a rope belt.
As she grew, the rope began to cut into her; it had to be removed, but was too embedded to be untied.
She prayed over it, and it fell to her feet.
Dominican tertiary as a very young woman.
Lived her entire life at home, practicing extreme austerities.
Confined to her bed for five years with a serious illness, she had to be carried to daily Mass.
During a Mass on the eve of the feast of Saint Dominic, the saint appeared to her, and later in the liturgy, she was miraculously healed.
Visionary who had visits from both angels and demons; she could banish the demons by mentioning the name of Our Lady.
However, hard life or no, sickness or no, visions and demonic oppression or no, she was known to be always cheerful and confident in God.
- Born
- 4 May 1254 at Cividale, Friuli, Italy
- Died
- 30 October 1292 at Cividale, Friuli, Italy of natural causes
- Beatified
- 6 February 1763 by Pope Clement XIV (cultus confirmed)
- Name Meaning
- welcome (from her father's statement at her birth: "She too shall be welcome!")
- Representation
- holding a length of rope
- Prayers
- Lord, you gave Blessed Benvenuta the gifts of penance, prayer and humility.
Through self-denial and contemplation on heavenly things may we too live in the Spirit and find rest and glory in you, the one God.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
- General Calendar of the Order of Preachers
- Additional Information
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Kirken i Norge [norwegian]
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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