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BL. SAVINA PETRELLI, FOUNDRESS - 18 APRIL

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL

Saints celebrated on the 18th of April

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

BL. SAVINA PETRELLI, FOUNDRESS 

Blessed Savina Petrilli was born on August 29, 1851 in Siena as the second daughter of Celso Petrilli and Matilde Venturini; her sister was Emilia. At the age of ten she read an account of the life of Catherine of Siena that instilled in her a strong devotion to her. 

HER VOW OF PERPETUAL VIRGINITY

Bl. Savina made a vow to God in which she pledged to remain a virgin at the age of seventeen. She served as part of the Marian movement Daughters of Mary from the age of fifteen and was appointed its president in 1873. 

A PRIVATE AUDIENCE WITH POPE PIUS IX

In 1869 she was received in a private audience with Pope Pius IX who invited her to establish a religious congregation devoted to Catherine of Siena upon learning that she was from Siena.

SHE CONFIDED HER PLAN TO HER SISTER

Bl. Savina then confided her plan to establish an order to her sister Emilia who was on the verge of death.

THE BEGINNING OF THE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST CATHERINE OF SIENA

She - alongside five others - made her solemn profession as a professed religious on August 15, 1873 - the date of her order's establishment. The new order received the approval of the Archbishop of Siena Enrico Bindi. 

THEY MOVED TO A NEW HOUSE

She and her new professed sisters moved to a new house in the name of the Sisters of the Poor of Saint Catherine of Siena on September 7, 1874 with the approval of the archbishop. The congregation opened their first house in Onano in 1881 and their first mission in Brazil in 1903. The papal decree of praise of Pope Leo XIII for the order was issued in 1891. 

The constitution of the order was approved as being implemented for a brief period on September 5, 1899 and approved in full after Pope Pius X approved it in a decree on June 17, 1906.

HER HAPPY DEATH

Bl. Savina died on April 18, 1923 at 5:20pm in Siena due to cancer. Her order now operates in Latin America in both Brazil and Argentina while it spread and operates in the United States of America and India. As of 2005 there were 589 religious in a total of 87 houses.

(Information from Wikipedia - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savina_Petrilli)

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