Skip to main content

BL. JULIANA OF COLLALTO, ABBESS - 1 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 1st of September

WELCOME!

BL. JULIANA OF COLLALTO, ABBESS 

Blessed Juliana, from the aristocratic family Collalto (Colalto), which had come to Italy with the German emperors, was a daughter of Tolbertus, who held the post of first cavalry captain with the House of Scaliger of Verona. Her mother's name was Johanna. These her parents had two sons, Rambaldus and Manfredus, and two daughters, Clara and Juliana.

HER STAY AT ST MARGARET MONASTERY

Blessed Juliana was born in 1186. At the age of ten she was admitted to the monastery of St Margaret in Salarola in the Padua area. Blessed Beatrix from the famous house of Este also lived here, but in 1222, because of unrest due to war, she left this monastery with ten other virgins to a lonely, more peaceful place. Beatrix' brother Azo III von Este founded a monastery and church in the new location. Among Beatrix' ten companions was Juliana, by now 36 years old.

SHE FOUNDED A NEW NUNNERY

When Blessed Beatrix died four years later, Bl. Juliana had a vision of St Blasius (St Blaise) instructing her to leave the monastery and to go to Venice instead. In Venice, she founded on the so-called Giudecca or Jews Island a nunnery near the church of St Blasius and St Cataldus. The church had been donated by some distinguished Venetian families along with a hospice for foreigners. It had been consecrated on November 6, 1188. 

A SHINING EXAMPLE OF HOLINESS AND ALL VIRTUES

The convent followed the Rule of St Benedict. Here, Blessed Juliana, the Abbess, was a shining example of holiness and all virtues to the sisters who soon gathered around her.

Many heavenly graces were given to her. She died on September 1, 1262 in the odour of sanctity at the age of 76, after having previously suffered from  headaches. 

SOME FISHERMEN SAW LIGHT EMITTING FROM HER GRAVE AT NIGHT

Immediately after her death she was venerated as a saint, and several miracles took place at her intercession. She is called upon in particular as intercessor to help with severe headaches. 

Initially, Bl. Juliana was buried in a wooden coffin, but after 35 years, on July 22, 1297, when the influx of the people kept growing, and some fishermen frequently saw light emitting from her grave at night, her body was officially raised.

HER BODY WAS FOUND INCORRUPT

The shrine in which it was located was intact, and her body was found incorrupt, whereupon it was exposed for veneration in a precious monument on an altar consecrated to her. The Bollandists in their book provide a picture of this shrine and of her person; she is depicted as the abbess with a shepherd's staff, her right hand on her chest. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

WELCOME

  Please pick your saints: January - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31   February - Saints by date  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17 18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29   March - Saints by date: 1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31   April - Saints by date: 1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30   May - Saints by date: 1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17   18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30   

ST JOHN BERCHMANS, RELIGIOUS - 13 AUGUST

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 13th of August WELCOME! SAINT JOHN BERCHMANS, RELIGIOUS   (Patron Saint of Altar Servers.) The eldest boy of a poor cordwainer, in a small Belgian town, John was ever a dutiful, prayerful, and studious child. Our Lord called him when but young to leave his father and his father’s house, to serve Him in the Society of Jesus.  And because he was so good a son, it cost his father much to give him up to God; but he was too good a Christian to refuse outright.  HE WAS SENT TO ROME John had hardly taken his religious vows when he was sent to the centre of Christendom, the holy city of Rome. His modesty, his purity, shone out as great virtue always does; and the young laymen who attended the lectures would come to gaze upon his beautiful and holy face, and go away the better for the sight. GREAT VIRTUE Three short years, and his last sickness found him sighing for heaven, and three days before the great feast of Mary’s Assumption in 1

ST LAURA OF CORDOBA, WIDOW AND MARTYR - 19 OCTOBER

  WELCOME! SAINT LAURA OF CORDOBA, WIDOW AND MARTYR   Laura, a widow and martyr of Cordoba in Spain, is mentioned in the Spanish martyrology of Tamajode Salazar, who refers to Luitprand, where it says the following: St Laura is said to have been of a noble family, and  according to the wishes of her parents she married an equally noble man and gave birth to two daughters.  After the death of her husband and her daughters, she went to the monastery of St Aurea, named St-Maria de Cuteclara, and after her martyrdom led the same for nine years as her successor.  After she had made wonderful progress in all virtues, she was finally summoned to renounce the faith before a Saracen judge. But since she remained steadfast, she was first beaten very cruelly and then thrown into a bath of boiling pitch, where she remained in praise of God for three hours and then flew to heaven on October 19, 864.   St Laura is of the 48 Martyrs of Cordoba. PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who