Christian feast day: Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello

Italian saint, nun and foundress

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence. Frassinello married to appease her parents in 1816 but the couple decided to lead a chaste life and both pursued a call to the religious…