A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.
May 26
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Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 54 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
…garden. After her death a tall white lily grew up where her blood had been thrown. She died on May 26th, 1645, and her burial was attended by immense crowds.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.
Keep their day. Remember them on May 26 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
…garden. After her death a tall white lily grew up where her blood had been thrown. She died on May 26th, 1645, and her burial was attended by immense crowds. Many miracles were believed to have been performed at her tomb and by her intercession.
She is usually called the “ Lily of Quito.”
Feast: May 26
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Bl. Marianna of Jesus's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
