ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 12th of March WELCOME! SAINT FINA, VIRGIN [She is the patron saint of those suffering from pressure sores.] Saint Fina [Seraphina, Serafina] was the daughter of poor but noble parents in Hetruria , and a humble, chaste virgin, dead to "self". Though poor herself, she did all she could in charity to the poor, depriving herself of some of her meal daily to feed a starving man. HER ILLNESS During a most tedious and protracted illness she showed wonderful patience, during which she once saw the devil in the form of a huge serpent. She drove him away by the Sign of the Cross. [In those days the bedridden used to be nursed on a wooden board, due to the problems associated with the amount of labour-intensive laundry caused by a person being completely bedbound. St Lidwina , too, was nursed on a board.] Fina could no longer get up from the hard board on which she was lying, she was plagued by pressure sores, her rotting...