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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 ...
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.
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. [7]
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.
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Such images are regulated by Articles 106 et seq. of the Italian Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape under Legislative Decree No. 42, dated January 22, 2004, and its subsequent amendments. These regulations, unrelated to copyright regulations, establish a system for the protection of Italy’s historic and artistic heritage and its ...
St. Louis Bertrand (1526–1581), Dominican priest (Colombia) Beatified: 19 July 1608 by Pope Paul V; Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X; St. Rose of Lima (1586–1617), Dominican tertiary (Peru) Beatified: 15 April 1668 by Pope Clement IX; Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X; St. Turibius of Mongrovejo (1538–1606), secular ...
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Altar in Heaven (Latin: Basilica Sanctae Mariae de Ara Cœli in Capitolio, Italian: Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Cœli al Campidoglio) is a titular basilica and conventual church of the Franciscan Convent of Aracoeli located the highest summit of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.