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ST. FRANCES OF ROME

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(Bussa di Leoni.)

One of the greatest mystics of the fifteenth century; born at Rome, of a noble
family, in 1384; died there, 9 March, 1440.

Her youthful desire was to enter religion, but at her father's wish she married,
at the age of twelve, Lorenzo de' Ponziani. Among her children we know of
Battista, who carried on the family name, Evangelista, a child of great gifts
(d. 1411), and Agnes (d. 1413). Frances was remarkable for her charity to the
poor, and her zeal for souls. She won away many Roman ladies from a life of
frivolity, and united them in an association of oblates attached to the White
Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria Nuova; later they became the Benedictine
Oblate Congregation of Tor di Specchi (25 March, 1433) which was approved by
Eugene IV (4 July, 1433). Its members led the life of religious, but without the
strict cloister or formal vows, and gave themselves up to prayer and good works.
With her husband's consent Frances practiced continency, and advanced in a life
of contemplation. Her visions often assumed the form of drama enacted for her by
heavenly personages. She had the gift of miracles and ecstasy, we well as the
bodily vision of her guardian angel, had revelations concerning purgatory and
hell, and foretold the ending of the Western Schism. She could read the secrets
of consciences and detect plots of diabolical origin. She was remarkable for her
humility and detachment, her obedience and patience, exemplified on the occasion
ofher husband's banishment, the captivity of Battista, her sons' death, and the
loss of all her property.

On the death of her husband (1436) she retired among her oblates at Tor di
Specchi, seeking admission for charity's sake, and was made superior. On the
occasion of a visit to her son, she fell ill and died on the day she had
foretold. Her canonization was preceded by three processes (1440, 1443, 1451)
and Paul V declared her a saint on 9 May, 1608, assigning 9 March as her feast
day. Long before that, however, the faithful were wont to venerate her body in
the church of Santa Maria Nuova in the Roman Forum, now known as the church of
Santa Francesca Romana.

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APA citation. Paoli, F. (1909). St. Frances of Rome. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205c.htm

MLA citation. Paoli, Francesco. "St. Frances of Rome." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06205c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J.
Murray.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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