WOMEN SAINTS AND MARTYRS JUNE 06-12
June 6
St. Cocca. Patroness of Kilcock on the borders of Counties Meath and Kildare in Ireland also called Cucca or Cuach.
June 8
St. Eustadiola, 690 A.D. Widow and Benedictine abbess. She lived in Bourges, France, where she was widowed and left with a fortune. Eustadiola used the wealth to build a convent in Bourges, Moyenmoutier, where she retired and became an abbess.
St. Melania the Elder, 410 A.D. Foundress, a patrician woman of the Roman Valerii family. She was one of the first Roman matrons to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where she founded a monastery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
St. Calliope, 3rd century. An Eastern martyr who was beheaded. The date and location of her martyrdom are unknown.
June 9
Bl. Diana. A member of the d'Andalo family, Diana was born near Bologna Italy, and convinced her father to withdraw his opposition to the founding of a Dominican priory on land he owned in Bologna. Dominic received her vow of virginity, but she was forced to remain at home by her family. Later she joined the Augustinians at Roxana but was forcibly removed from the convent by her family. She was injured in the struggle but later escaped and returned to Roxana. Sometime later Blessed Jordan of Saxony convinced the family to found a Dominican convent in 1222 for her, staffed with Diana and four companions and four nuns brought from Rome, two of them Cecilia and Amata. Diana died on January 9, and when Cecilia and Amata died, they were buried with her. All three were beatified in 1891.
Bl. Anne Mary Taigi. Anne Mary Taigi (1769 - 1837) Born at Siena, the daughter of a druggist named Giannetti, whose business failed; she was brought to Rome and worked for a time as a domestic servant. In 1790 she married Dominic Taigi, a butler of the Chigi family in Rome, and lived the normal life of a married woman of the working class. In the discharge of these humble duties and in the bringing up of her seven children she attained a high degree of holiness. Endowed with the gift of prophecy, she read thoughts and described distant events. Her home became the rendezvous of cardinals and other dignitaries who sought her counsel. She was beatified in 1920.
St. Pelagia of Antioch, 311 A.D. Roman, martyred virgin. She was a disciple of St. Lucian of Antioch and was fifteen when Roman soldiers came to her house to arrest her for being a Christian. Rather than be arrested and risk losing her virginity, she hurled herself from the roof and died. She was greatly praised by St. John Chrysostom, and her name is included in the Eucharistic Prayer in the Ambrosian Mass.
June 10
Bl. Olive.Olive was a beautiful girl of thirteen, of a noble Palermo, Italy family who was carried off to Tunis by raiding Moslems. They allowed her to live in a nearby cave, but when they found that her miracles and cures had converted many Mohammedans, she was imprisoned, tortured, and after converting her executioners trying to burn her to death, was beheaded
Bl. Amata, 1270 A.D. Dominican co-foundress. Amata was a Dominican nun in Rome. She co-founded the convent of St. Agnes at Valle di Pietro, in the Bologna area of Italy.
St. Amelberga, 690 A.D. Benedictine nun and widow. She was a relative of Blessed Pepin of Landen and was the mother of Sts. Cludula, Emebert, and Reinildis. Her husband, Count Witger, became a religious, and she entered a convent.
June 11
St. Tochmura, Virgin. She is venerated in the diocese of Kilmore, Ireland, and is considered a special patron of women in labor.
St. Paula Frasinetti, 1809-1882 A.D. Foundress, also known as Paola Frassinetti. She was born in Genoa. Her brother was a parish priest in the city, and she assisted him by teaching poor children in their parish. From this humble beginning in 1834 began the Congregation of St. Dorothy, which soon spread across Italy and then to the Americas. Beatified in 1930, she was canonized in 1984.
June 12
St. Cunera. A British virgin venerated in Germany.
St. Cocca. Patroness of Kilcock on the borders of Counties Meath and Kildare in Ireland also called Cucca or Cuach.
June 8
St. Eustadiola, 690 A.D. Widow and Benedictine abbess. She lived in Bourges, France, where she was widowed and left with a fortune. Eustadiola used the wealth to build a convent in Bourges, Moyenmoutier, where she retired and became an abbess.
St. Melania the Elder, 410 A.D. Foundress, a patrician woman of the Roman Valerii family. She was one of the first Roman matrons to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where she founded a monastery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
St. Calliope, 3rd century. An Eastern martyr who was beheaded. The date and location of her martyrdom are unknown.
June 9
Bl. Diana. A member of the d'Andalo family, Diana was born near Bologna Italy, and convinced her father to withdraw his opposition to the founding of a Dominican priory on land he owned in Bologna. Dominic received her vow of virginity, but she was forced to remain at home by her family. Later she joined the Augustinians at Roxana but was forcibly removed from the convent by her family. She was injured in the struggle but later escaped and returned to Roxana. Sometime later Blessed Jordan of Saxony convinced the family to found a Dominican convent in 1222 for her, staffed with Diana and four companions and four nuns brought from Rome, two of them Cecilia and Amata. Diana died on January 9, and when Cecilia and Amata died, they were buried with her. All three were beatified in 1891.
Bl. Anne Mary Taigi. Anne Mary Taigi (1769 - 1837) Born at Siena, the daughter of a druggist named Giannetti, whose business failed; she was brought to Rome and worked for a time as a domestic servant. In 1790 she married Dominic Taigi, a butler of the Chigi family in Rome, and lived the normal life of a married woman of the working class. In the discharge of these humble duties and in the bringing up of her seven children she attained a high degree of holiness. Endowed with the gift of prophecy, she read thoughts and described distant events. Her home became the rendezvous of cardinals and other dignitaries who sought her counsel. She was beatified in 1920.
St. Pelagia of Antioch, 311 A.D. Roman, martyred virgin. She was a disciple of St. Lucian of Antioch and was fifteen when Roman soldiers came to her house to arrest her for being a Christian. Rather than be arrested and risk losing her virginity, she hurled herself from the roof and died. She was greatly praised by St. John Chrysostom, and her name is included in the Eucharistic Prayer in the Ambrosian Mass.
June 10
Bl. Olive.Olive was a beautiful girl of thirteen, of a noble Palermo, Italy family who was carried off to Tunis by raiding Moslems. They allowed her to live in a nearby cave, but when they found that her miracles and cures had converted many Mohammedans, she was imprisoned, tortured, and after converting her executioners trying to burn her to death, was beheaded
Bl. Amata, 1270 A.D. Dominican co-foundress. Amata was a Dominican nun in Rome. She co-founded the convent of St. Agnes at Valle di Pietro, in the Bologna area of Italy.
St. Amelberga, 690 A.D. Benedictine nun and widow. She was a relative of Blessed Pepin of Landen and was the mother of Sts. Cludula, Emebert, and Reinildis. Her husband, Count Witger, became a religious, and she entered a convent.
June 11
St. Tochmura, Virgin. She is venerated in the diocese of Kilmore, Ireland, and is considered a special patron of women in labor.
St. Paula Frasinetti, 1809-1882 A.D. Foundress, also known as Paola Frassinetti. She was born in Genoa. Her brother was a parish priest in the city, and she assisted him by teaching poor children in their parish. From this humble beginning in 1834 began the Congregation of St. Dorothy, which soon spread across Italy and then to the Americas. Beatified in 1930, she was canonized in 1984.
June 12
St. Cunera. A British virgin venerated in Germany.
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