The Venerable Servant of God Lodovico Coccapani was born on 23 June 1849 in Calcinaia (Pisa, Italy). After the premature death of his parents, he and his sisters moved to Pisa. He then received the post of second-grade male primary school teacher, which he left due to voluntary resignation in 1869, when crucifixes were removed …
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Lay mystic; Franciscan tertiary; born in Mindelstetten (between Regensburg and Ingolstadt), Bavaria, Germany, on February 18, 1882. She died in Mindelstetten on October 5, 1925. Anna Schäffer was one of many children of a carpenter. Offering her life to God for the welfare of others, she began working in Regensburg to help support her family, …
ANGELO GIUSEPPE RONCALLI was born in Sotto il Monte, in the Diocese and Province of Bergamo, on 25 November 1881. The fourth of thirteen children, he was baptized that same day. Under the guidance of an outstanding parish priest, Father Francesco Rebuzzini, he received a profound ecclesiastical formation which would sustain him in difficulty and …
Rose was born in Viterbo (Italy) in 1233. It was the time of the emperor Frederick II’s reign. Frederick II came into conflict with the pope, who excommunicated him. In response, Frederick began attacking the papal states. In 1240, he conquered the region of Viterbo, Italy. Rose’s parents, Caterina and Giovanni, were of modest origins …
