As my friends know, I enjoy writing about Saints - but I usually do a marathon of posts in November. But I recently read about this Saint for the first time and I feel the need some of her namesake virtue -- and I also want to dedicate this to my Godmother, Roseanne Meyer.
St. Humility was born about 1226 to a noble family in Feanza, Italy, and was baptized Rosana. At the age of 15 she lost her father and at 16 she was married to patrician Ugoletto of Caccianemici. The couple had two children in quick succession, but both babies died shortly after being baptized. At the age of 24, Rosana and her husband of 9 years chose to turn their lives over to God and entered the double monastery of St. Perpetua in Feanza. Rosana took the religious name of Sister Humility.
Sister Humility was soon struck with a serious illness, but she was miraculously cured in 1254. She withdrew to a private cell where she lived the rest of her life as a strictly cloistered recluse. Through contact with Sister Humility there, young women from Feanza came to acquire a taste for consecrated life. In 1266, these young women, under the direction of Sr. Humility, formed a convent where Humility could be a mother again, this time to spiritual daughters. A few conferences of hers have been handed down, talks that are stylistically quite modest, but which have been compared by experts to the writings of St. Catherine of Sienna.
(source: Married Saints and Blesseds Through the Centuries by Ferdinand Holbock)
