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词条 Bona of Pisa
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Veneration

  3. Notes and references

  4. External links

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|feast_day= 29 May
|venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church
|image= Santa Bona - Giovanni Lorenzetti.jpg
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|caption= Santa Bona, Giovanni Lorenzetti Fusari, 2003
|birth_place= Pisa, Italy
|death_place= Pisa, Italy
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|patronage=travellers, specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims, flight attendants; Pisa
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}}Bona of Pisa (c. 1156–1207) was a member of the Third order of the Augustinian nuns who helped lead travellers on pilgrimages. In 1962, she was canonized a saint in the Catholic Church by Pope John XXIII. She is considered the patron saint of travellers, and specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims, flight attendants, and the city of Pisa.[1]

Biography

A native of Pisa, she is reported as having experienced visions from an early age. On one occasion, the figure on the crucifix at the Holy Sepulchre church held out his hand to her. At another church, she saw a vision of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and three saints, including James the Greater. She was frightened by the light around these figures, and ran away. James pursued her, and led her back to the image of Jesus. Bona observed a very pronounced devotion to James for the rest of her life. By the age of ten, she had dedicated herself as an Augustinian tertiary. She regularly fasted from an early age, taking only bread and water three days a week. Four years later, she made the first of her many journeys, going to see her father who was fighting in the Crusades near Jerusalem. On her trip home, she was captured by Muslim pirates on the Mediterranean Sea, wounded, and subsequently imprisoned.

She was later rescued by some of her countrymen, and completed her trip home. Shortly thereafter, she set out on another pilgrimage, this time leading a large number of pilgrims on the long and dangerous thousand-mile journey to Santiago de Compostela, where James the Greater is honored. After this, she was made one of the official guides along this pilgrimage route by the Knights of Saint James. She successfully completed the trip nine times. Despite being ill at the time, she took and completed a tenth trip, and returned home to Pisa, dying shortly thereafter in the room she kept near the Church of San Martino in Pisa, where her body has been preserved to the present day.

Veneration

Her feast day is celebrated on 29 May. She is also regarded as a patron saint of travellers, and specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims, flight attendants, and the city of Pisa.

Notes and references

1. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-art-of-naming-babies-501051.html Independent.co.uk], "The art of naming babies"
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  • Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. {{ISBN|0-14-051312-4}}.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511202851/http://saints.sqpn.com/saintb5b.htm Saint Bona of Pisa] at Patron Saints Index
  • Bona of Pisa at Saints - May
  • {{it icon}} Santa Bona da Pisa

External links

  • Katolsk.no: Bona of Pisa
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