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Saint Hunna d. ~679 Saint Hunna was born into a

Saint Hunna
d. ~679

Saint Hunna was born into a privileged life, the daughter of a duke in Alsace. She matured and married Huno of Hunnaweyer, a nobleman, and together they settled in the diocese of Strasbourg (now France). Together, they produced one son, Saint Deodatus, who eventually became a monk (and then a saint!). Saint Hunna was devoted to the Lord, raising her son with constant teaching, and living the virtues of the faith. She spent her days caring for her home and estate, and in prayer, while her husband traveled on diplomatic and political missions.

But this didn’t seem to be enough for Saint Hunna. In her prayer, she felt called to do more, to serve others. By the Lord, her eyes were opened to the poverty and general squalor that the peasants and servants lived in… and she felt moved to assist. Hunna began making daily trips from the estate into the local villages and fields, visiting her poor neighbors, offering them religious instruction, and working for them. At first, she simply offered to do their laundry, earning her the title, “holy washerwoman.” Hunna would travel from home to home, collecting soiled clothing, and then spend the better part of each day washing and scrubbing the clothing clean. When the clothing was too dirty, or too threadbare to mend, she would replace it with a new article.

As time went on, her washing service expanded to any task that her neighbors needed help with—cooking, cleaning, childcare, even more demanding physical labor. She also instructed in ways of cleanliness, assisting with hygiene. Saint Hunna regularly performed the greatest act of service, bathing those who were unable to bathe themselves.

#patronsaint of laundry workers, washerwomen, laundresses

St. Hunna #prayforus

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Bl. Rolando Rivi January 7, 1931 – April 13, 194

Bl. Rolando Rivi
January 7, 1931 – April 13, 1945
Born in San Valentino, a hamlet of the town of Castellarano, he was the second of three children of Roberto and Albertina Rivi. On the day after he was born, his parents brought him to be baptized in the village church, after which they dedicated him to Our Lady of Mount Carmel (thus his middle name, Maria). He came to be an intelligent and lively child; his grandmother once said that he would either become a saint or a bandit!
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Rolando entered the seminary of Marola in the fall of 1942. But in 1944, following the German occupation of the country, he was forced to return home. He did not, however, stop considering himself a seminarian. Nor did he cease wearing the cassock – notwithstanding the opposition of his parents, who were worried due to the anti-religious hatred that had become widespread in that area. When they asked him to stop wearing it, his response was: “But why? What harm do I do in wearing it? I don’t want to take it off. I am studying to be a priest and the cassock is the sign that I belong to Jesus.”
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On April 10, 1945, Rolando was taken by a group of Communist insurgents, who forced him to go with them into the woods.
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On Friday, April 13, 1945, after three days of torture and humiliation, the insurgents brought him to a forest in the village of Piane di Monchio, where there was already a grave dug. It was about 3:00 in the afternoon. They hurled him to the ground and then forced him to kneel on the edge of the grave. Before they killed him, Rolando asked for – and was granted – a moment to pray for his parents. Even then, he reaffirmed his belonging to Christ. The Communist insurgents then murdered him with two shots of the pistol. #Martyr.

Bl. Rolando #prayforus

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