🇮🇹 🇻🇦 Saint Frances of Rome Feast: March 9

 

🇮🇹 🇻🇦 St. Frances of Rome

Widow (✝️ 1440 Anno Domini A.D.)       Feast: March 9

Frances, who was born to a noble family of Rome, married a wealthy young man at the age of 13. Though a dedicated wife & mother, she wished to be of wider service & spent her free time nursing the sick in the local hospital 👩‍⚕️ 🤒 🏥

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Later, as outbreaks of plague  & the violence of civil war  encroached on Frances 's world, she emptied the family storehouse, sold all her jewels  & turned part of her house into a hospital. After the death of her children, her husband released her from the obligations of married life, freeing her to form a society of women living in the world, dedicated to serving God  & the poor.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_of_Rome

https://tinyurl.com/FrancescaRomanaVino

Though under no vows, Frances & her companions placed themselves under the direction of the Olivetan Benedictine monks ⛪ & followed the Rule of Benedict. Frances 's practical skill in managing household affairs & her attention to the needs of others was combined with a deep life of prayer 🙏

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http://www.umilta.net/francesca.html

For the last 20 years of her life Frances reported that an archangel 👼 -visible only to her - accompanied her at all times, withdrawing only when she committed a fault 😩 😈  & then returning when she made her confession 🙇‍♀️ ✝️   Her last years, when she was no longer capable of nursing, were dedicated entirely to prayer.

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https://romanmiscellany.blogspot.com/2007/03/santa-francesca-romana.html?m=1

On the evening of March 9, 1440 A.D., sensing that her end was near, Frances said, "The angel has finished his task; he beckons me to follow him." All of Rome turned out to mourn the passing of a saint. She was canonized in 1608 A.D. & is the patron of Benedictine oblates.

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 "A married woman must often leave God  at the altar  to find him in her househould care." 

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