Article: The marvelous St. Fidgeta: tales of a 7-year-old martyr are a gem of religious burlesque.

Finding myself in an unfamiliar Vermont Catholic church one early spring Sunday, I looked over the weekly bulletin that offered, along with the usual listings, details on saints whose feasts were coming up. St. Anne Line caught my eye--someone I'd recently encountered while doing research on the early modern era. A Catholic convert who committed Elizabethan treason by harboring priests, she was executed on London's notorious Tyburn gallows. Following Anne in the bulletin was a name wholly unfamiliar to me--St. Frances of Rome. Reading on, I learned of the numerous eleemosynary works of this married woman who lived in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Concluding note: ...

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