January 18th

Blessed Beatrice d'Este

Blessed · Common of Nuns · Ferrara, Italy · d. 1262

At Ferrara in Emilia, Blessed Beatrice d’Este, nun, who, after the death of her husband and the renouncing of worldly rule, dedicated herself to God in a monastery she herself founded under the Rule of Saint Benedict.

Latin Original

Ferrárize in /Emilia, beatae Beatricis Esténsis, moniális, quz, cóniuge defüncto et principátu séculi abdicáto, Deo in monastério ab ipsa sub Régula sancti Benedicti fundáto se dicávit.