Saint Humility (Humilitas; Italian: Umiltà) (c. 1226 – May 22, 1310) was a founder of Vallumbrosan convents, and considered the founder of the Vallumbrosan Nuns.
Born Rosanna Negusanti to a noble family from Faenza, she was married at the age of fifteen to a nobleman named Ugoletto (Ugonotto) dei Caccianemici (d. 1256). She bore two children, both of whom died in infancy. In 1250, Ugoletto became a monk upon recovering from an illness that nearly...
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Saint Humility (Humilitas; Italian: Umiltà) (c. 1226 – May 22, 1310) was a founder of Vallumbrosan convents, and considered the founder of the Vallumbrosan Nuns.
Born Rosanna Negusanti to a noble family from Faenza, she was married at the age of fifteen to a nobleman named Ugoletto (Ugonotto) dei Caccianemici (d. 1256). She bore two children, both of whom died in infancy. In 1250, Ugoletto became a monk upon recovering from an illness that nearly killed him. Rosanna entered the same double monastery of canonesses named Saint Perpetua, near Faenza, becoming a nun and taking the name Humility.
She became an anchoress in a cell attached to the Vallumbrosan church of Saint Apollinaris in Faenza, where she lived as a hermit or recluse for twelve years.
However, at the request of the abbot-general she founded a monastery outside Faenza and became its abbess. Blessed Margherita became one of her disciples.
In 1282 she founded a second convent at Florence, where she died in 1310 of natural...
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