Nov. 13 - St Agostina Pietrantoni

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In US today we celebrate the very well-known St. Mother Frances X. Cabrini, the first US saint, who devoted her life to helping poor immigrants. But there is another newer saint with a feast day today whom I also like: St. Agostina Pietrantoni, a Vincentian Sister of Charity who worked in a hospital in Rome and was murdered by a mentally ill patient in 1894. I posted about her last year, so I link my post from then and also add another link I found about her with more illustrations.

St. Agostina Pietrantoni, pray for us.
St. Mother Cabrini, pray for us also.

Nov. 13 - St. Agostina Pietrantoni Spirituality

Today is the feast in US of the well-known St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, who is generally known as the first US saint to be canonized. (St. Isaac Jogues and two of his fellow North American Martyrs who died on what is now US soil were canonized earlier, but they died in the 1600s before the US was founded. ) It is also the feast of St. Didacus, St. Stanislaus Kostka, and a new saint I just learned about, St. Agostina Pietrantoni, a Sister of Charity in Rome who was a nurse and was murdered by on…

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