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Francesca Bussa de' Leoni (1384 – March 9, 1440), known as Frances of Rome Obl.S.B. (Italian: Francesca Romana; Latin: Francisca Rōmāna), was an Italian Catholic mystic, organizer of charitable services and a Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of oblates, who share a common life without religious vows. She was canonized in ...
Saint Francesca Romana has been named the patron of car drivers, because of a legend that an angel used to light her way with a lamp when she travelled at night. Automobiles line up on the day of her feast (9 March) as far as the Colosseum , to partake of the blessing.
Frances was inspired to name St. Paul, St. Benedict and St. Mary Magdalen as the patron saints of the new community. In the early days, there were four members. They continued to live without vows, but otherwise lived a typical monastic life of prayer and manual labor. The monastery received papal approval on July 4 of that same year.
Finding St. Francis, a 2014 film directed by Paul Alexander; L'ami – François d'Assise et ses frères (The friend – Francis of Assisi and his brothers), [104] a 2016 film directed by Renaud Fely and Arnaud Louvet starring Elio Germano; The Sultan and the Saint, [105] a 2016 film directed by Alexander Kronemer, starring Alexander McPherson
The confessio of Santa Francesca Romana is the confessio, the enclosed area below the altar, of the Basilica of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome. It was built between 1638 and 1649 to a design by Gian Lorenzo Bernini , including a bronze sculptural group of St Frances and the angel.
The Guardian Angel (Rieti, St. Rufo Church) Saint Francesca Romana With an Angel, (Genoa, Palazzo Rosso) Christ Among the Doctors (Naples, Museo di Capodimonte). Saint Anthony and the Christ Child (Rome, Santi Cosma e Damiano) Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms (Ancona, Pinacoteca Civica) Saint Homobonus and the Beggar (Rome, Vicariato)
Chapel of St. Ivo, Formerly of the family of San Brigida dei Foscherari: it has statues of Angelo Piò and the paintings of the Madonna of St. Luke and Saints Emidio and Ivo by Gaetano Gandolfi and Apparition of the Virgin to St. Francesca Romana by Alessandro Tiarini (1615). On the pillar, two clocks, one of the first made in Italy with the ...
The subject of the sculpture, Ludovica Albertoni, was a Roman noblewoman who entered the Third Order of St. Francis following the death of her husband. [2] She lived a pious life, working for the poor of the Trastevere neighborhood, under the guidance of the Franciscan friars of San Francesco Church, where she was buried in 1533. [2]