March
6
Saints of the Day... and Events
St. Rose of Viterbo, 1234-1252,
Rosa of Viterbo; Rosa of Vieterbo
A teenage girl who resurrected a person at age 3,
successfully defended the Papacy and her incorrupt body remains in the convent
that refused her
Franciscan
tertiary.
At age three she brought a person back from death.
Preached
in the streets from age ten. Prophetess. Had the friendship of birds. Was
repeatedly refused entrance to the
Poor Clares.
After her death,
Pope
Alexander IV ordered her incorrupt body laid to rest in the
convent
that had refused her.
By the time she was 12, the young "hermitess" was already a marvel to her
fellow townsmen. Viterbo at that time was completely under the domination of
the anti papal imperial party. Rose now began to preach in the streets,
urging that the Viterbians not submit further to Frederick's soldiery garrisoned
there, but oust these enemies of the pope.
On December 5, 1250, she is said to have prophesied that the
excommunicated Frederick's days were numbered. He died eight days later. On the
death of the highly intelligent but stubbornly ambitious emperor, Viterbo
returned to papal jurisdiction and St. Rose and her parents went home.
Not long
afterward she asked to be admitted to the local convent of St. Mary of the
Roses. The abbess refused to receive her because being poor, she could
not bring with her the required "dowry." The young tertiary responded, "You
will not have me now, but perhaps you will be more willing when I am dead."
So she went back to her father's house and continued there her life as a
"private religious." She died on March 6, 1252, aged 17. Burial was in the
church of Santa Maria in Podio. But in 1258 her incorrupt body was
transferred from this church to the church of the convent of St. Mary of the
Roses, as she had intimated it would be. Although she would not be
canonized until 1457, Pope Innocent IV permitted the cause of her canonization
to be initiated the very year of her death.
St. Rose of Viterbo is
still the darling of her native city. Many other saints have been called on
to defend the rights of the papacy. Usually they have done so as martyrs.
This holy teenager championed the Sea of Peter not by dying for it, but by
living it.
- Born
1234
at
Viterbo,
Italy
Died
1252
of natural causes
Canonized
1457
Additional Information
-
http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id40.htm
-
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintr23.htm
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http://www.fspa.org/spirituality/rose.asp
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St.
Sylvester of Assisi
One of the first 12 followers of Saint
Francis
of
Assisi,
and first
priest
in the Franciscan Order. Sylvester once sold
Francis
stone to rebuild a church and afterwards he became a good Franciscan
St.
Colette
She restored the rule of Saint
Clare to its original severity and helped Saint
Vincent Ferrer to heal the
papal
schism.
One branch of the
Poor Clares is still known as the
Colettines.
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