05 Works, Today, April 26th, is Saint Alda Gambara’s day, With Footnotes – #116

Saint Alda, (c. 1249 – c. 1309), was born in Siena, the daughter of the noble Pedro Francisco Ponzi and Inês Bulgarini, whom God had shown in a dream that he had chosen the child for Himself.

After being carefully educated and instructed, she was given as a wife to a man “virtutibus ornatissimus” – decorated with virtues – Bindo Bellanti, with whom, however, she had no children…

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