St. MAGDALENE OF CANOSSA
St. Magdalene of Canossa was born the third of six children of a noble family in Verona Italy, on 2 March 1774. Her father died when she was five and her mother remarried soon after, so Magdalene was brought up by an uncle and given a good education. By way of painful events the Lord guided her towards unforeseen paths on which Magdalene tentatively set out.