St. Musa

A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

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April 2 · Virgin

St. Musa

St. Musa

A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Traditional feast

April 2
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 30 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

Land five days after, lying in her bed, she looked up sud- I denly and said, “Mistress mine, I am coming; I am j coming !” and so fell asleep.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Keep their day. Remember them on April 2 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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The full original · 30 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Canisius in his German Martyrology, Ferrari us in his Catalogue of Italian Saints, Peter de Natalibus, &c. Authority: — S. Gregory the Great in his Dialogues, lib. iv. c. 17. J S. Musa was a little girl in Rome, who in a dream one night saw a great company of girls in white, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, who stayed her when she wished to run among them, telling her that if she desired to be of that happy company, she must be a good and serious little girl. When the child woke, she was changed in heart from what she had been, and was filled with a love of God, and a desire to be of the number of the white-robed. And after twenty-five days, the child was attacked with fever, Aprils.] Francis of Paula.

Land five days after, lying in her bed, she looked up sud- I denly and said, “Mistress mine, I am coming; I am j coming !” and so fell asleep.

Feast days

Feast: April 2

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Musa's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Chester Beatty T 414 fol 129r Musa al-Kazim.png · Sun'i · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: Sun'i, Wikimedia Commons (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.