Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?June_11th_=E2=80=93_St=2E_Paula_Frassinetti=2C_Virgin=2C_Foun To : All From : rich Date : Wed Jun 10 2020 09:50:34 From: rich June 11th =E2=80=93 St. Paula Frassinetti, Virgin, Foundress d. 1882 After the French Revolution and the flood of impiety it had let loose over Europe, the need of Christian education became everywhere more clearly understood by those who had the cause of God at heart. We find then a considerable number of religious institutes devoted to this work growing up everywhere during the first half of the nineteenth century, many of them being founded by earnest and saintly souls who seem to have been divinely guided in their efforts to meet a most crying need. Such a valiant woman was Paula Frassinetti, the sister of a priest well known as the author of a number of devotional books and himself a very ardent apostolic worker. Paula was born at Genoa on March 3, 1809. Her health in early life was very frail and in the hope that a change of air would prove beneficial, she joined her brother who was then parish priest of Quinto. There she undertook to instruct poor children and in a short time it was apparent that she had found her true vocation. She felt inspired to gather others round her and to found an institute which should be devoted entirely to such work. She had many difficulties to encounter, complete lack of resources being not the least of the obstacles in her path. But her tact, self-sacrifice and ardent devotion--she often spent the best part of the night in prayer--triumphed in the end. The Sisters of St. Dorothy--for this was the name by which the congregation was known--spread and multiplied not only in many parts of Italy, but also beyond seas in Portugal and in Brazil. The institute was formally approved by the Holy See in 1863. St. Paula was credited with a wonderful insight into character and with a knowledge of the secrets of hearts. After a series of strokes and worn out with incessant labours, she died very peacefully in the Lord on June 11, 1882. See the decree of beatification in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol. xxii (1930), pp. 316-319, and also the Analecta Ecclesiastica for 1907. There is an Italian life, by A. Capecelatro (1901), and one in English by J. Unfreville, published in U.S.A. c. 1944, called A Foundress in the Nineteenth Century. 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. Saint Quote: Faith resembles a lamp. As a lamp lights the whole house, so the light of Faith illuminates the whole soul. --St. John Chrysostom Bible Quote: =C2 For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him: Having the same conflict as that which you have seen in me and now have heard of me.=C2 =C2 [Philippians 1:29-30 = ] DRB <><><><> I Came to You Late I came to You late, O Beauty so ancient and new. I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside where I rushed about wildly searching for You like some monster loose in Your beautiful world. You were with me but I was not with You. You called me, You shouted to me, You wrapped me in Your Splendour, You broke past my deafness, You bathed me in Your Light, You sent my blindness reeling. You gave out such a delightful fragrance and I drew it in and came breathing hard after You. I tasted, and it made me hunger and thirst; You touched me, and I burned to know Your Peace. --St. Augustine of Hippo --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .