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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.
St. Frances (1378-1440) was a native and noblewoman of the city who had wanted to be a nun when she was a child. Despite being compelled to enter into an arranged marriage with a wealthy and aristocratic member of the papal military forces, she and her husband were happily married.
A church at the site was known by the tenth century, was named Santa Maria Nova (or "Nuova", "New St Mary"), to distinguish it from the other church inside the Roman forum devoted to St Mary, Santa Maria Antiqua ("Ancient St Mary"), which had fallen into ruin by then. [3] The relics from the ancient church were moved to this church under Pope ...
In 1901, the Rock Island congregation became an independent community [25] [26] [27] but merged with the Sisters of St. Francis of Peoria in 1989. [28] In 1894 Josephine Dudzik founded the "Franciscan Sisters of St. Kunegunda", to assist the poor, sick, elderly, and abandoned in Chicago's predominantly Polish northwest side.
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He was murdered inside his own church at the age of 28 during a robbery on March 3, 2011, leaving behind a grief-stricken wife and a shell-shocked congregation.
The oldest surviving depiction of St. Francis is a fresco near the entrance of the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229. He is depicted without the stigmata , but the image is a religious image and not a portrait.
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