At Florence in Tuscany, Blessed Villana de’ Botti, a married woman who, withdrawing from worldly life, obtained the habit of the Sisters of the Penance of Saint Dominic. She was distinguished by her meditation on Christ crucified and by an austere manner of life, begging alms for the poor even in the streets.
January 29th
Blessed Villana de' Botti
Latin Original
Floréntie in Etrüria, beáte Villánz de Bottis, matrisfamilias, qua, a vita mundána descíscens, hábitum Sorórum de Pzniténtia Sancti Dominici impetrávit atque Christi crucifixi meditatióne et austéra vivéndi ratióne enituit, stipem pro paupéribus étiam in viis mendícans.