BLESSED MILADA, VIRGIN AND ABBESS - 23 APRIL

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL

Saints celebrated on the 23rd of April

BLESSED MILADA, VIRGIN AND ABBESS

Raised and educated in Regensburg [Ratisbon], where she acquired an unusual knowledge of Latin and the Holy Scriptures, she wished to remain there and serve God as a perpetual virgin, which her father granted. After the latter's death she went to Rome, where Pope John XIII gave her the name Maria upon her joining the Benedictines (in A.D. 971). 

She then worked for the Christianisation of Bohemia by applying for the creation of the Diocese of Prague (in 973). She also founded a convent for noble Bohemian ladies in Prague, of which she became the first abbess. She gave the sisters a shining example of glorious virtues. Her holy death took place on February 8 or 9, 994. 

Blessed Milada is commemorated on February 9, February 7, and April 23.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1875, pp. 457-58)

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PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of the blessed Milada may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.