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Tuesday 5 August 2014

Saints of The Knights of Malta Part Six

from the main site....

http://www.smom-za.org/saints/toscana.htm

In 2003, there was a TLM in her church in Verona

http://www.unavoce-ve.it/fsspx16-02-03-3.jpg

St. Toscana

Religious of the Order of Malta

Memorial: 14 July

She was born in Zevio, near Verona (Italy) about 1280 and married a man from Verona, Albert Canoculi with whom she began to do remarkable work for the poor. After her husband's death, she sold all that she owned and became a nun in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, where she devoted her life to prayer and caring for the sick. She died on 14 July 1343 or 1344.

Prayer:

O God, who kept your servant Toscana unscathed by the turbulence of this world both as a wife and as a widow, and made her the instrument in our Order of a remarkable work of charity for the poor, grant us the grace of serving you as she did and of pleasing you by our faith and by our actions. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
(From: The Missal with readings of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes, & of Malta, London 1997)