April 20
Clara Bosatta (1858–1887)
Religious
Practical advice
Look beyond someone's fragile appearance today and entrust them with a task in line with their true capacity.
Biography
A young worker in a spinning mill in northern Italy, Dina Bosatta searched for her religious vocation for years. She met Blessed Luis Guanella and took the name Clara in the small community that would become the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence. She dedicated herself to poor girls, young workers and abandoned elderly women, assuming demanding tasks with meekness and a deep interior life. Sent to Como, she fell ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of twenty-nine. His apparent fragility hid a firm and sacrificial charity.
Example of
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