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April Saints

Saint Magdalen of Canossa (1774-1835) Saint Magdalen of Canossa was born Magdalen Gabrielle in Verona, Italy, in 1774. Her father was a naturalist and geologist, her mother a court attendant and lady-in-waiting to Empress Marie Therese’s court in Vienna. When Magdalen was only five, her father died suddenly. Her mother remarried two years later and […]