ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 15th of December WELCOME! SAINT MARIA CROCIFISSA DI ROSA, VIRGIN AND FOUNDRESS Paola Francesca Di Rosa was born on November 6, 1813 in Brescia as one of nine children born to Clemente Di Rosa and Countess Camilla Albani. She was educated by the Visitation Sisters in their convent in Brescia. After her mother died in 1824, she began working in her father's large spinning mill in Acquafredda where she took an instant notice of the working conditions; she became the manager when she turned nineteen. She began caring for the female workers and devoted herself to looking after their material and spiritual needs which was something that her father encouraged her to do. Her father began searching for suitors to have her married, but she turned each of them down. Di Rosa was upset that her father did this and confessed her disappointment to the priest Faustino Pinzoni who then spoke to her father to tell him that his daughter had...