História de Santas e Santos – BARPURI – José Carlos Barbosa – Santas e Santos lembrados diariamente, intercedei por nós!
Vercéllis Ordinátio sancti Eusébii, Epíscopi et Mártyris. At Vercelli, the ordination of St. Eusebius, bishop and martyr.
1771 BD MARY MARGARET D’YoUvILLE (née Dufrost de Lajemmerais). Born at Varennes near Montreal, 1701; left a widow in 1722 , she devoted herself to hospital work and in 1738 founded the Grey Nuns of Canada. She died on 23 December 1771 and was beatified in 1959.
During the next ten years Paula continued to live at home, but engaging herself more and more in social good works, in which she had the worthy example of her father before her eyes. Among his properties was a textile mill at Acquafredda where a number of girls worked, and one of Paula’s first undertakings was to look after the spiritual welfare of these young women; this solicitude she extended to those of Capriano, where the Rosas had a country house.
História de Santas e Santos – BARPURI – José Carlos Barbosa – Santas e Santos lembrados diariamente, intercedei por nós!