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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. [7]
In 1907, when, in accordance with the rules in force since the time of Pope Pius V, feast days of any form of double, if impeded by "occurrence" (falling on the same day) [2] with a feast day of higher class, were transferred to another day, this classification of feast days was of great practical importance for deciding which feast day to ...
21: Dies Romana, a festival linked to the foundation of Rome. [12] According to legend , Romulus is said to have founded the city of Rome on April 21, 753 BC . From this date, the Roman chronology derived its system, known by the Latin phrase Ab Urbe condita , meaning "from the founding of the City" , which counted the years from this presumed ...
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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.
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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.