Saint
Saint Frances of Rome
- Country / origin
- Italy
- Life
- 1384–1440
- Feast
- 9 March
- Canonised
- 1608
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
A Roman noblewoman, married at thirteen, a wife and mother for forty years, who lost two of her children to the plague. She nursed the sick and fed the poor during war, famine and epidemics, and founded a community of women dedicated to prayer and service, the Oblates of Tor de' Specchi.
Patron of
- drivers
- widows
- Rome
When to ask for intercession
- before a journey by road
- for wives and mothers
- grief for a child
A short prayer
Saint Frances of Rome, intercede for me and for all who travel on the roads, and teach me to serve God in my family and in those in need.
Written for cento53 as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What we know — and how
Tradition holds
Tradition says she often saw her guardian angel at her side, lighting her way at night; for this reason Pius XI named her patroness of drivers in 1925.
A saint for what you are living
- A journey
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