Aldobrandesca
Italian Christian saint and nurse
Feast: 26 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Aldobrandesca (also known as Alda) (c. 1249, Siena, Italy – c. 1309) was an Italian saint and mystic. A short description of her life was published in 1584, which was later translated into Latin and published in the Acta Sanctorum.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Santi e Beati — Beata Alda (Aldobrandesca) da Siena — Listed as "Beata Alda (Aldobrandesca) da Siena", Siena, 28 febbraio 1245 - Siena, 26 aprile 1309 (id 50950 — Vedova 26 aprile
- Wikidata Q2836789 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Aldobrandesca (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.