Book Description

Here are the inspiring lives of three holy women, St. Rose of Lima, Blessed Colomba di Rieti and St. Juliana Falconieri. Originally published in 1873, this very readable volume has been re-type set and enhanced with 133 images. The bulk of the volume is devoted to Saint Rose and Blessed Colomba, both spiritual daughters of St. Catherine of Siena and, like her, Dominicans of the Third Order, That is to say that they imitated St. Catherine's penitential spirituality closely, and with similar results.. In other words they had, especially St. Rose, tremendous impact on their society. This is reflected in the enormous amount of artwork she inspired in the first two centuries after her death and in the fact that she has been made patroness of the Americas. Blessed Colomba is wholly a delight, but too little known outside of Italy, like St. Catherine a penitent and a miracle worker. From a still more remote time and from a different order is St. Juliana Falconieri, the niece of one of the holy founders of the Servites and herself the founder of a third order of Servite women, the subject of a remarkably beautiful death..