ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 24th of January WELCOME! BLESSED PAOLA GAMBARA COSTA, COUNTESS Paola, of noble blood, born in 1463, desired to become a nun but complied with the desire of her parents to embrace marriage. Herself and her husband Count Lodovico Antonio Costa (the Lord of Benasco) tied the knot in 1485 and the pair travelled to the small Benasco province for the ensuring celebrations. She endured her new husband's expensive tastes seeing it as her role to be faithful to him even if she did not live the excessive luxuries. In spring 1486 the couple visited Milan and Alessandria before setting off for Asti. The two also visited Turin where the duke received them. Her confessor, Father Carletti, advised her to enroll in the Third Order of Saint Francis while learning to appreciate the poor and to detest the lavishness of the secular world. Paola thus became a religious in 1491 with the permission of her husband. She of...