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| Blessed Julia, Pray for us ! |
βͺ Saint of the Day : January 9
βͺ Other Names :
β’ Giulia della Rena da Certaldo β’ Julia della Rena β’ Julia de la Rena
βͺ Memorial :
β’ 9 January β’ 15 February on some Calendars β’ Formerly 25 February
βͺ Born : 1319 at Certaldo, Italy
βͺ Died : 9 January 1367 of natural causes
Blessed Julia is a model of gospel living by a lay person and of mutual collaboration between religious and laity.
Julia della Rena was born at Certaldo, Italy, near Florence, about the year 1319. Orphaned at an early age, she was employed as a domestic in the service of the Tinolfi family in Florence where, in 1337 at the Augustinian church of the Holy Spirit, she became an Augustinian Secular. After returning to Certaldo, she retired to a life of solitude near the church of Saints Michael and James. For thirty years she led a life of penance and prayer. Upon her death in 1370 she was immediately venerated as a saintly woman by the faithful who had sustained her with their alms and revered her for her life of prayer and penance.
Juliaβs mortal remains are venerated at Certaldo in the church of Saints Michael and James, which at one time was under the care of the Augustinians. In a number of instances the people of Certadlo attributed their deliverance from the plague to Blessed Julia.
Her feast is celebrated by the Augustinian Family on 15 February.
Source : Rotelle, John, Book of Augustinian Saints, Augustinian Press 2000
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