Religious · Remembered on March 9
St. Frances of Rome
St. Frances of Rome is remembered on March 9 in Bless’s calendar of saints. Traditionally invoked as patron of motorists.
Life
A Roman noblewoman, forty years a devoted wife while running her palazzo as a relief station through plague, famine, and civil war. A wife, she held, may have to leave God at the altar to find him again in her housework. Widowed, she joined the community of oblates she had founded. Her guardian angel, she said, was visible to her for years.
Patron of
Tradition invokes St. Frances of Rome as patron of motorists.
Patronages are traditional, not an official list. All patron saints in Bless, A to Z.
In the calendar
The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Frances of Rome. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.
Readings
No dates are left in Bless’s published calendar, which runs through December 31, 2028. St. Frances of Rome keeps March 9 in Bless’s calendar of saints: see the saints of March.
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