Bl. Christina Visconti

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1435 - 1458

The accounts of the early years of the Italian young woman Christina Visconti vary widely. Some present her as a devout girl who, eager to imitate the saints, spent a decade living as a hermitess, while others describe her as a worldly teenager who lost her innocence. But all accounts agree as to how she spent the latter part of her brief life. Having become a Third Order Augustinian, she went on pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi at the age of twenty.

In Spoleto, she took up residence in a hospital where she devoted herself to nursing the poor. Living penitentially, she clothed herself in a habit made from sown-together rags. Continually at prayer, Christina meditated assiduously upon the Passion of Christ, exhorting herself, �Behold with how much blood your Spouse flowed for you!� In 1458, she planned to go to Rome to attend the ceremonies of Holy Week there, but early in the year she contracted a fever that ultimately proved fatal. A short time before dying, the twenty-two-year-old Christina experienced a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary inviting her to the bridal chamber of her divine Son.

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Emma
2 years ago
Does anyone know what feast day she is? I'm doing her for my saint name, and I want to know...
GEO
2 years ago
When was she cannonized? What was her greatest accomplishment?
jessl
3 years ago
Does anyone know what St. Christina Visconti is the patron saint of?
Michaela from olop
4 years ago
hi it's me Michaela again
I totally love this saint she is absolutely fab!!! she is a great girl with a mind like God well not really but she is really talented and smart. I'm doing St. Christina 4 my olop Confirmation Project thingy I'm doing a biography of her.

so bye sure 2 talk soon from Michaela from olop xoxoxox
MIKI from olop!
4 years ago
I love this saint i can understand the facts so well it in english!!! i'm doing ST.Christina 4 my project i love her

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