St. Flora
Patron of abandoned, converts, single laywomen, and victims of betrayal
Died: 1347
St. Flora, Virgin, Patron of the abandoned, of converts, single laywomen, and victims of betrayal - Feast day is October 5th. Flora was born in France about the year 1309. She was a devout child and later resisted all attempts on the part of her parents to find a husband for her. In 1324, she entered the Priory of Beaulieu of the Hospitaller nuns of St. John of Jerusalem. Here she was beset with many and diverse trials, fell into a depressed state, and was made sport of by some of her religious sisters. However, she never ceased to find favor with God and was granted many unusual and mystical favors. One year on the feast of All Saints, she fell into an ecstasy and took no nourishment until three weeks later on the feast of St. Cecelia. On another occasion, while meditating on the Holy Spirit, she was raised four feet from the ground and hung in the air in full view of many onlookers. She also seemed to be pierced with the arms of Our Lord's cross, causing blood to flow freely at times from her side and at others, from her mouth. Other instances of God's favoring of his servant were also reported, concerning prophetic knowledge of matters of which she could not naturally know. Through it all, St. Flora remained humble and in complete communion with her Divine Master, rendering wise counsel to all who flocked to her because of her holiness and spiritual discernment. In 1347, she was called to her eternal reward and many miracles were worked at her tomb.
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I am going to do St. Flora for my school project just because of this!!!!!!
this,s a nice,amazing and interesting name i love to chose it for my confirmation,i leart u are a virgin but dear i will like to marry,please help me with God fearing man and pray for me
I am impressed by the works of saint flora. I am asking for her favors just to visit her namesake my sister and convert her in Jesus name amen
this website is good for my soial studies
i love saints
I love the name Flora very short and powerful. I Pray to her to find me a very good wife.
I love the name flora my parents were going to call me flora and that is why I think I will choose her for my confirmation name, hence the flora in brackets ;) xx
This is the first time I am seeing a picture of my patron saint. Thank you Flora for this gift. I am going to have you framed and please pray for me. Although you are the patron of single lay women, me I do not want to be single , please find me a husband. Thank you
my name is Flora and i just searched my name and found this and i drew her and hung her on my wall then prayed to her
we have to repoort a st i love the name flora show i picked her
Hey Abigail, I already chose her name. Ha. ('-',) Flora is cool.
this was kinda helpful and the only part that i didn't understand was the blood was pouring out of her. why would god do that? wouldn't it hurt?
I love the name Flora! This site is so interesting! I'm thinking of choosing Flora as my Confirmation saint! :)
this is the worst website i have been on im supposed to do a saint report
Cheryl, why do you think this is a stupid website? Why are you on it?
this is a stupid wepsite
I was just looking for my name's meaning and found this site...
I don't usually like catholic religion, I identify with paganism a lot more (and my name is that of a pagan goddess, it was even before it was given to this saint), but when I read this I felt great about myself lolol xD I do give good counsel to those who flock around me! heehee
I really liked this saint's story.
I love her name it's strong and the story is amazing as well
i love this website its great for my religion studies and it teaches me lots of things.