January 22nd

Blessed Mary Mancini

Blessed · Common of Nuns · Pisa, Italy · d. c. 1431

At Pisa in Tuscany, Blessed Mary Mancini, who, twice widowed and bereft of all her children, at the urging of Saint Catherine of Siena established the common life in the monastery of Saint Dominic, which she governed for ten years.

Latin Original

Pisis in Etrária, beatae Maríze Mancini, qua, bis viduáta omníque orbáta prole, adhortánte sancta Catharína Senénsi, vitam commünem in monastério Sancti Domiínici instítuit, cui decem annos praefuit.