Category: Servite Saints & Blesseds

Clelia Barbieri was born on 13 February 1847, at Le Budrie in the Diocese of Bologna, Italy. Her early years were passed in the great poverty.

In 1868, together with three companions, she founded a community to care for abandoned girls and to provide for their education. She died at the age of twenty-three on 13 july 1870, at Le Budrie where her body is venerated. She was canonize by Pope John Paul II on April 9, 1989. From the small group at Le Budrie was born the religious family of the Minims of the Sorrowful Virgin.

Ubald was born at Borgo Sansepolcro around the middle of the thirteenth century. He entered the Order of Servants an was ordained a priest.

As a Servite friar he was noted for the holiness of his life and works. He was a close friend of Saint Philip.

Thomas of Orvieto was drawn to enter the Servite Order by his great love of Our Lady and his...

James Philip was born in 1454 in Celle di Monte Chiaro in the diocese of Faenza, Italy. Because of...

Francis was born in Siena in 1266. Because of his love for the Blessed Virgin he entere the Order...