Feast day: March 9
St. Frances of Rome
Roman noblewoman who balanced 40 years of marriage and motherhood with heroic service to Rome's poor and plague-stricken.
She's the patron of drivers because she reportedly traveled with her guardian angel lighting the road ahead like a headlamp.
“A married woman must, when called upon, quit her devotions to God at the altar to find Him in her household affairs.”
— St. Frances of Rome
Image: Antoniazzo Romano (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.
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