February 26 Saint Of The Day: St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin Patron Saint of rejection.

    Today being February 26, The Church celebrate a well determined soul, caring, and above all a lovely soul that has a human heart. Maria BertillaIf went through allot of pains from the hands of her father, families, friends and some neighbors, have experienced how dis-appointment, ridicule and painfully to be rejected by your own family and friends, All these are all that motivated Maria Bertilla Boscardin to her vocation and we are celebrating her today as a Saint, these trials brought Maria so dear-ing to God & vowed to serve him more with determination.

   Maria Bertilla Boscardin held from Italy in 1888, She *lived in fear of her father, her father was so violent in nature, mean 2 jealousy & drun-kenness. Maria Bertilla education was not very great in the name of helping her family both @ home & working in the fields. Maria Bertilla displays many talents that caused lots of jealousy from her pears as from friends and some families.

    Maria Bertilla Boscardin joined d Sisters of St. Dorothy & was a good cook and so industrious, Maria managed to serve in the kitchen, bakery & laundry in 1904. But with love on her from the sister she re-ceived nurses’ training & began working in a hospital helping the children suffering 4rom diphtheria. In this process Maria as a nun found her true vocation, nursing many hard disturbed & ill children. The Military took over the hospital letter in World War-one, Maria Bertilla fearlessly still cared 4 patients amid-st the threat of constant air raids & bombings.


In 1922 Maria Bertilla Boscardin died  after suffering from painful tumor for years. In 1961 she was listed in saint(Cananonization) and many of her patients she nursed for years were there to witness. Since then she became the Patron Saint of rejection.