January 24th

Blessed Paula Gambara Costa

Blessed · Common of Widows · Binasco, Italy · d. 1505

At Binasco near Milan in Lombardy, Blessed Paula Gambara Costa, widow, who, enrolled in the Third Order of Saint Francis, patiently bore with her violent husband and led him to conversion, and always exercised charity toward the poor in a notable way.

Latin Original

Bináci prope Mediolánum in Langobárdia, beatae Paulae Gambara Costa, víduze, qua, Tértio Ordini Sancti Francísci adscripta, violéntum cóniugem patiénter tolerávit et ad conversiónem duxit atque caritátem in páuperes semper insigniter exércult.