St Humility, also known as Rosanna Negusanti, Humilitas, or Umiltà, was the founder of the Vallumbrosan Nuns. She was born in 1226 AD in Faenza, Italy and died on May 22 1310 in Florence, Italy. We celebrate her feast day on May 22 every year in the Catholic Church.
St Humility Biography |
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| Date of Birth | 1226 AD |
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| Country/Place of Birth | Faenza, Italy |
| Matrimony/Holy Orders | Saints who were Nuns/Sisters |
| Profession | Nun, hermitess |
| Place of Work | Italy |
| Date of Death | May 22 1310 |
| Place of Death | Florence, Italy |
| Feast Day | May 22 |
| Canonized | By Pope Clement XI on January 27 1720 |
| Patron Saint of | Faenza |
Saint’s Biography
Saint Humility was born as Rosanna Negusanti in 1226 in Italy. She was the daughter of Elimonte and Richelda Negusanti from a noble and prosperous family. Rosanna longed to join a monastery, but her parents wanted her to marry.
Her father died in 1241, and the following year, her family forced Rosanna to marry at sixteen. Her husband was (Ugoletto) a young nobleman from Faenza. Ugoletto was an unfaithful man who made fun of his wife’s beliefs.
In 1250 he was almost killed, an event that led him to change his lifestyle. Both husband and wife, enter the twin monastery of Saint Perpetua near Faenza, Italy, Ugoletto as a lay brother, Rosanna as a nun, under the name of sister Humility.
She was a spiritual disciple of Saint Crispin and lived as a hermitess for twelve years in a cell near the Church of Saint Apollinaris. Humility founded the monastery of Santa Maria Novella in Malta, the first Vallombrosan Monastery for nuns, and served as its abbess. Founded a second convent at Florence, Italy, and lived there until her death.
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