St. Rose Venerini: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, May 07, 2024 (Tue, 07 May 2024)
Blessed Rose was born at Viterbo in 1656, the daughter of Godfrey Venerini, a physician. Upon the death of a young man who had been paying court to her, she entered a convent, but after a few months
had to return home to look after her widowed mother. Rose use to gather the women and girls of the neighborhood to say the rosary together in the evenings, and when she found how ignorant many of
them were of their religion, she began to instruct them. She was directed by Father Ignatius Martinelli, ...
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