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Post  Ceinwyn 13/01/10, 02:20 pm

Blessed Veronica of Milan
13 January

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Giovanna Negroni was born in Binasco, a village near Milano, Italy, in 1445. She was the daughter of poor peasants, with whom she worked in the fields. Hands occupied, united with nature, she raised her heart to God as she labored at reaping and hoeing. She had no formal education, and anxious that her illiteracy might prevent her from growing in holiness, she unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read while the rest of her family slept.

She began to experience ecstasies and successive visions of the life of Christ. One day being in great anxiety about her learning, the Blessed Virgin appeared to her and taught her that all she needed:
First, purity of the affections, by placing her whole heart on God alone, loving no creature but in him and for him;
Second, never to murmur, or be impatient at the sins, or any behavior of others, but to bear them with interior peace and patience, and humbly to pray for them;
Third, to set apart some time every day to meditate on the passion of Christ.

Having learned her lesson well from the Virgin, each day she would arise and dedicate the work of her hands to God. In concentrating upon perfecting her own offering, she had no time for judging others. She did, however, pray for those who manifestly erred. By meditating on the Passion, she forgot her own pains and sorrows in those of Our Lord and her frequent, silent tears in remembering His sufferings.

At the age of twenty-two she entered the Augustinian monastery of Saint Martha in Milan as a lay sister, since she was illiterate. Because of her devotion to the passion of Christ she took the name of Veronica. She was a great contemplative but she also engaged in numerous manual activities. She took very loving care of the sick sisters and developed an intense apostolate throughout Milan and its environs as she went collecting alms for the convent.

Three years later she was afflicted with secret but bodily pains, yet never would consent to being relieved of her labors or to omit her prayers. She said, "I must work while I can, while I have time." She perfected the virtue of joyful obedience.

Like Saint Catherine of Siena she journeyed to far off places, bearing special messages. Once she traveled to Como to confer with the Franciscan Fra Giovanni, and another time to Rome in 1495 to meet with Pope Alexander VI to give him a message she received a vision of Christ.

Her biographers note her intense spiritual life, her zeal for the salvation of souls, her suffering over the few days available for communion, and the faith that she confessed when she was able to receive communion. This biography goes on to say that this unlettered nun was hardworking and a contemplative for thirty years. She "always appeared with peaceful countenance, smiling eyes, and always quick to help, being of a strong constitution."

Blessed Veronica died on 13 January 1497, the day she had foretold, after a six-month illness, aged 52. Due to the great throngs that came to venerate her, the body of Sister Veronica remained unburied for five days, and "many of the infirm who touched the holy body recovered their health." "The archbishop, being too ill to investigate, sent his vicar, who entered the monastery to see and ascertain if what was being reported was true. This was the fourth day after her death, and seeing what has been said was true, he was both amazed and filled with wonder."

On 15 December 1517 Pope Leo X granted the nuns permission to celebrate Veronica's feast; as a result Blessed Veronica's name was inserted in the Roman martyrology. In 1798, with the suppression of the monasteries of Lombardy by the revolutionaries, her body was moved to the parish church of Binasco where her mortal remains are preserved.

God bless,
Elizabeth
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