You will find Umilta on the Juliansite below. Please add to its
bibliography, Adele Simonetti, I Sermoni di Umilta da Faenza (Spoleto:
Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1995), which S.I.S.M.E.L. has
just given me. Piero Lorenzetti painted her life and miracles in a polyptich
that used to be above her tomb in Florence and Orcagna sculpted her as
holding her book. The sculpture and polyptich survive, and so does her body,
but all now in different places.
Interestingly, Santa Rita is very popular among Florentine wives to this
day, though Cascia is at some distance. She was a battered wife and mother
who overcome great odds to become an Augustinian nun.
Both Saints Umilta and Rita were married women with children, Umilta then
becoming a nun, an anchoress, an abbess.
I'm curious to know more about the crucified Julia.
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Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family,
via del Partigiano 16, Montebeni, 50014 FIESOLE, ITALY,
http://members.aol.com/juliansite/Juliansite.htm
Gregory on Benedict: 'quia animae videnti Creatorem angusta est omnis creatura'.
Julian of Norwich: 'For a soul that seth the Maker of al thyng, all that is
made semyth fulle lytylle'.
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