Feast day: May 7
St. Rose Venerini
An Italian woman who opened one of the first free public schools for girls and founded an order of teaching sisters that spread schools across Italy.
She founded over forty free schools for girls at a time when few thought girls worth educating — a pioneer of public education for women.
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