March 9
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
St. Frances of Rome

St. Frances of Rome

religious, wife and mother · 1384 – 1440
A married woman must often leave God at the altar to find him in her housekeeping.
— According to her biography

A Roman noblewoman, wife and mother, who lived through wars, plague and the death of two children. With her friends she opened a house for the poor. She said that her guardian angel accompanied her visibly. Holiness is born in everyday duties.

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