February 17
Isabel Sanna (1788–1857)
Widow
Practical advice
Ask simply for the help you need and at the same time offer what you can do for another person.
Biography
Sardinian wife and mother, Isabel Sanna had her arms partially paralyzed since childhood, but she learned to work, take care of her home and educate her children. Widowed after seventeen years of marriage, she traveled on a pilgrimage and stayed permanently in Rome due to health problems. There he met Saint Vincent Pallotti, joined his apostolic work and turned his house into a place of prayer and catechism. Her disability did not extinguish her motherhood or her service; It led her to depend more on God and the community.
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