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Balbina (4th cent.?) There was already a cemetery and a church in Rome
named after Balbina in the fourth century. The church was apparently
endowed by Balbina, and she herself was honored there later as a saint.
The author of a later vita made Balbina the daughter of Quirinus, reporting
that they were both martyred in Rome.
Guido of Pomposa (d. 1046) Guido was born in c. 970 at Casamar near
Ravenna. He became a Benedictine monk and in 998 abbot of Casamar. In the
nearly fifty years of his abbacy, Guido made his monastery a model of
monastic reform. He clearly had a great reputation for holiness, since
Emperor Heinrich III had Guido's relics transferred to Speyer in the very
year after his death. (The only thing my source leaves out is what his
connection with Pomposa was.)
Jeanne of Toulouse (d. 1286) (blessed) Jeanne was born sometime in the
first third of the thirteenth century in Toulouse. She became a Carmelite
tertiary, and is sometimes regarded as the founder of the Carmelite Third
Order. She was beatified in 1895.
Daniel the Camaldolese (d. 1411) Cult not formally approved. Daniel was a
German merchant. In c. 1400, during a business trip to Venice, he became a
Camaldolese monk and remained in a monastery on the isle of Murano. In
1411 he was shot in his cell in the monastery by robbers. A pilgrimage
developed to his tomb.
Bonaventura Tornielli of Forli (d. 1491) (blessed) Bonaventura was born in
1410 in Forli (N. Italy). He became one of the greatest preachers of Italy
in an age of impressive preachers. From 1488 on he was the general vicar
of the Servite order, which he had entered at a young age. He was
venerated as a saint immediately after his death; he was formally beatified
in 1911.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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