St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

On May 25, the Catholic Church celebrates Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi,
an Italian noblewoman of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
who became a Carmelite nun distinguished for her intense prayer life and
devotion to frequent Holy Communion.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI marked the 400th anniversary of St. Mary
Magdalene de Pazzi’s death in a letter to the Archbishop of Florence,
her birthplace. He described her as “a symbolic figure of a living love
that recalls the essential mystical dimension of every Christian life.�

“May the great mystic,� the Pope wrote, “still make her voice heard in
all the Church, …read more

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