ST. MATILDE, QUEEN, ST. PLACIDO RICCARDI, MONK OF SAINT PAUL OF ST. PAUL OUTSIDE THE WALLS, Mar. 14

ST. MATILDE, QUEEN

St. Mathilda, Roman Catholic Queen. The pious Queen adorned the throne by her many virtues. She visited and comforted the sick and the afflicted, instructed the ignorant, succored prisoners, and endeavored to convert sinners, and her husband concurred with her in her pious undertakings. After twenty-three years of married life King Henry died, in 936. No sooner had he expired than she had a Mass offered up for the repose of his soul, and from that moment she renounced all worldly pomp. Mar. 14

ST. PLACIDO RICCARDI, MONK OF SAINT PAUL OF ST. PAUL OUTSIDE THE WALLS

study led to a conversion experience, a pilgrimage to Loreto, and entry to the Cassinese Benedictine abbey of Saint-Paul-Outside-the-Walls in Rome on 12 November 1866; he made his final profession on 19 January 1868, taking the name Placido.Mar. 14