ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 16th of January BLESSED JOAN OF BAGNO, VIRGIN A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) According to some sources, Blessed Joan (Johanna) was born at Saint Maria in Bagno (S. Mariae in Balneo) , a town in Tuscany situated on the Savio (ad Sapin), but according to others at Fontechiuso (Fons clausus) in Tuscany. She did definitely not come from Baja in southern Italy, as Lechner * and others say, and neither did she first see the light of day in Bagnarea (Balneoregium) in the Papal States, as others think, and as is also erroneously stated in the old Saints Lexicon *. Blessed Joan led a holy life as a lay sister in the Camaldolese monastery of Saint Lucia near Bagno and died in A.D. 1100 or 1105. Once she drove out the plague through the power of her intercession. When she died, the church bells began to toll on their own accord. The miracles by which the Lord glorified ...