May 22nd

Blessed Humility

Blessed · Common of Abbesses · Florence, Italy · d. 1310

Likewise at Florence in Tuscany, Blessed Humility (Rosanna), who, with the consent of her husband, lived as a recluse for twelve years; then, at the bishop’s request, she built a monastery of the Order of Vallombrosa, over which she presided as abbess.

Latin Original

Floréntie item in Etrüria, beáte Humilitátis (Rosánnz), quz, cóniuge consentiénte, per duódecim annos reclása vixit, dein, epíscopo poscénte, monastérium eedificávit ex Ordine Vallis Umbrósz, cui abbatissa preéefuit.