ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 28th of February
VIOLANTIA DE SOUSA, ABBESS
[Violantia; also: Violetta, Violeta]. The Bollandists*, as well as the martyrologies of the Benedictine and Cistercian Orders call her Violantia de Sousa. This is probably her family name. Her nunnery is stated to have been Saint Benedictus de Castris.
Lechner* writes the following comment about her: "Elected abbess, she lived for 28 years more like an angel than a human being." She died around the year 1400; the Bollandists* list this holy abbess among the Praetermissi (III. 718).
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 736)
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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