B. LUDOVICA ALBERTONI, ROMAN WIDOW, ST. BRIGID, ABBESS IN IRELAND Feb. 1

B. LUDOVICA ALBERTONI, ROMAN WIDOW

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, who educated her children into chrtistianity and after the death of her husband, entered the Third Order of St. Francis and assisted the needy to the point that being rich became poor. Feb 1

ST. BRIGID, ABBESS IN IRELAND

Brigid and seven friends organized communal consecrated religious life for women in Ireland and she founded two monastic institutions, one for men and one for women. Brigid invited a hermit called Conleth to help her in Kildare as a spiritual pastor. Feb. 1