From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

June 11th =E2=80=93 St. Paula Frassinetti, Virgin, Foundress
d. 1882

After the French Revolution and the flood of impiety it had let loose
over Europe, the need of Christian education became everywhere more
clearly understood by those who had the cause of God at heart. We find
then a considerable number of religious institutes devoted to this
work growing up everywhere during the first half of the nineteenth
century, many of them being founded by earnest and saintly souls who
seem to have been divinely guided in their efforts to meet a most
crying need. Such a valiant woman was Paula Frassinetti, the sister of
a priest well known as the author of a number of devotional books and
himself a very ardent apostolic worker. Paula was born at Genoa on
March 3, 1809. Her health in early life was very frail and in the hope
that a change of air would prove beneficial, she joined her brother
who was then parish priest of Quinto.

There she undertook to instruct poor children and in a short time it
was apparent that she had found her true vocation. She felt inspired
to gather others round her and to found an institute which should be
devoted entirely to such work. She had many difficulties to encounter,
complete lack of resources being not the least of the obstacles in her
path. But her tact, self-sacrifice and ardent devotion--she often
spent the best part of the night in prayer--triumphed in the end. The
Sisters of St. Dorothy--for this was the name by which the
congregation was known--spread and multiplied not only in many parts
of Italy, but also beyond seas in Portugal and in Brazil. The
institute was formally approved by the Holy See in 1863. St. Paula was
credited with a wonderful insight into character and with a knowledge
of the secrets of hearts. After a series of strokes and worn out with
incessant labours, she died very peacefully in the Lord on June 11,
1882.

See the decree of beatification in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol.
xxii (1930), pp. 316-319, and also the Analecta Ecclesiastica for
1907. There is an Italian life, by A. Capecelatro (1901), and one in
English by J. Unfreville, published in U.S.A. c. 1944, called A
Foundress in the Nineteenth Century.

Her brother was a parish priest in the city, and she assisted him by
teaching poor children in their parish. From this humble beginning in
1834 began the Congregation of St. Dorothy, which soon spread across
Italy and then to the Americas. Beatified in 1930, she was canonized
in 1984.


Saint Quote:
Faith resembles a lamp. As a lamp lights the whole house, so the light
of Faith illuminates the whole soul.
--St. John Chrysostom

Bible Quote:
=C2 For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but
also to suffer for him: Having the same conflict as that which you
have seen in me and now have heard of me.=C2 =C2 [Philippians 1:29-30 =
] DRB


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I Came to You Late

I came to You late, O Beauty so ancient and new. I came to love You
late. You were within me and I was outside where I rushed about wildly searching for You like some monster loose in Your beautiful world. You
were with me but I was not with You. You called me, You shouted to me,
You wrapped me in Your Splendour, You broke past my deafness, You
bathed me in Your Light, You sent my blindness reeling. You gave out
such a delightful fragrance and I drew it in and came breathing hard
after You. I tasted, and it made me hunger and thirst; You touched me,
and I burned to know Your Peace.
--St. Augustine of Hippo

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