ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER
Saints celebrated on the 29th of October
PAULA TIRELLI, VIRGIN
Paula Tirelli was a pious and wealthy virgin in Milan. Not satisfied with the numerous and severe penances which she practiced in secret, she walked the busiest streets in poor and ragged clothes. One hot summer's day she wandered around with her fur coat turned inside out, for humility's sake, to be ridiculed as a fool. When she met her confessor on these walks, she knelt down and asked for his blessing. She built the monastery and church of the Angelics under the title of S. Paolo Converso and entered it herself (around 1535). She also founded a refuge for prostitutes in honour of Saint Mary of Egypt, later called Monache del Crocifisso. Another institute that she had called into being was a college for virgins, La Guastalla.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875)
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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