ST. CATHERINE DE’ RICCI, DOMINICAN VIRGIN OF PRATO, ST. NICOLA SAGGIO OF LONGOBARDI, MINIMS ORDER MEMBER Feb. 2

ST. CATHERINE DE’ RICCI, DOMINICAN VIRGIN OF PRATO

Alexandra de’ Ricci was born of a noble family near Florence in 1522. At the age of twelve she entered the Dominican convent of St Vincent at Prato and took the religious name Catherine. Inspired by the Dominican reformer Girolamo Savonarola she worked constantly to promote the regular life.Feb. 2

ST. NICOLA SAGGIO OF LONGOBARDI, MINIMS ORDER MEMBER

He was a pious child, and would spead whole days in prayer in a local Minim church. At 20, against his family’s wishes (legend says that he was struck blind when his mother objected, and only recovered his sight when she agreed to let him follow his vocation), he became an Oblate friar of the Order of the Minims, taking the name Nicola. Feb. 2