Saint Veridiana
- Memorial
- 16 February
- Profile
- Member of an impoverished but noble family.
Drawn to religious life from an early age.
Pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Anchoress at age 26, living 34 years in a tiny cell at the chapel of Saint Anthony of Padua, Florence.
Received the habit of the Secular Franciscan Order from Saint Francis himself in 1211.
Legend says that when a famine struck in the area of her home town, she gave away some beans her uncle had already sold; the next day, after the poor had taken their fill, the storage bins were mysteriously refilled.
- Born
- 1182 at Castelfiorentino, Florence, Italy
- Died
- 1242 at Florence, Italy while at prayer
- Canonized
- 1533 by Pope Clement VII (cultus confirmed)
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