March 15: Saint Louise de Marillac
Placing the poor before all else
Mother, widow, teacher, social worker, nurse, and founder, Louise de Marillac embodied every state in a woman’s life.
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Mother, widow, teacher, social worker, nurse, and founder, Louise de Marillac embodied every state in a woman’s life.
She was an virtuous queen, renowned for her deep piety and charity. She is Saint Matilda of Germany, also known as Matilda of Ringelheim. Born into a family of ancient nobility in Enger, Westphalia, around 895, her father was the Saxon count of Westphalia, Theodoric of Ringelheim, and her mother was Reinhild of Frisia.
Received personally in 1212 by Saint Francis of Assisi into the Order of Friars Minor, Francis directly entrusted him with the task of opening convents in Paris and in England. He is Blessed Agnellus, born in Pisa in 1194.
Luigi Orione was born on June 23, 1872, in Pontecurone (Alessandria) to a family of modest economic means. He began attending Don Bosco’s oratory in Valdocco, where he learned love for young people and concern for their future. In Turin, he was deeply moved by the charitable work founded by Saint Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo.
As a tireless opponent of the heresy of Monothelitism and as Patriarch of Jerusalem, he succeeded in preserving the faith of Christians during the Arab conquest. This was Sophronius, born in Damascus, Syria, around the year 550. From a young age he devoted himself to study and later to the teaching of literature and rhetoric.
Matteo Elia Nieves was born in Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico, on September 21, 1882. The son of humble farmers, he soon felt a vocation to the priesthood. Sadly, at the age of 12 his father was killed and he had to abandon his studies in order to support his family.
In 1903, he managed to enter the Augustinian college of Yuriria, despite having no financial resources and suffering from fragile health.
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