she had it rough in the end....a mystic...born in 1931-...from a small village near Bergamo...near the Italian Lakes in Lombardy. She spent the war years in the mountains. She met a Capuchin Priest and made a pilgrimage to Rome ( I think that means walk)( 247 miles, but not a difficult trek) for a beautification of a saint in 1947.
She wanted to join the Third Order of St Francis and started wearing a brown habit....but her parents said absolutely not!
In 1957 she met her demise by being stoned to death and worse.. John Paul 2 made her a saint as she died
in "defensum castitatis"
In defense of Chastity!
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