ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 5th of March
ISABELLA LOSA, WIDOW
Isabella Losa, (commemorated on March 5), a widow, is mentioned in some martyrologies with the title "blessed". She came from a noble family in Cordova, was conversant with Latin, Greek and Hebrew, also had a great deal of theological knowledge, but renounced all wealth, became a Poor Clare and wandered throughout Italy in poverty and built several houses for the poor. She died in 1605.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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