JACHELINA, WIDOW - 16 FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 16th February

JACHELINA, WIDOW

Jachelina, (remembered on February 16), Countess of Schwarzenberg, came from a noble family. After the death of her husband, who was court marshal to Duke William V, the father of Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, South Germany, the widow lived a very pious life for 32 years.

SHE RENOUNCED ALL THE COMFORTS OF LIFE

She renounced all the comforts of life and served only God in fervent prayer. She was seen only at home, or in the Church of St Michael, to whom she was so devotedly that she herself washed all the church's linen and made the church universal heir to her estate.

A FERVENT DEVOTION TO ST MICHAEL

After she had also done many other good things, she died in Munich on February 16, 1622 and was buried in Ebersberg in the chapel of St Moritz.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints)

FROM THE BAVARIAN SAINTS GALLERY:

BL. JOSEPH, THIRD BISHOP OF FREISING

The Bishop of Freising blessing the faithful

Blessed Joseph, the third Bishop of Freising (in Bavaria, South Germany) was - according to the Bavaria sancta - originally probably from Tyrol [Austria]. St Corbinian, the first bishop of Freising, had been succeeded by his brother Erimbert. After the latter's death in A.D. 749, our blessed Joseph came to the episcopal see. St Boniface,...

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