Saint Mary di Rosa 12-15
She was born as Paolina Francesca di Rosa on November 6, 1813, in the city of Brescia, Italy.[1] First educated in a convent by the Visitation Sisters, she left school after the death of her mother when she was seventeen years old to take care of her father, who ran a saw mill with numerous employees. She helped the women and girls working there. During the cholera epidemic in 1836 she worked in the hospital in Brescia. She founded a school for the hearing impaired and … [Altro]