Bl. Joan of Toulouse, Mar. 31

Very little is known about Bl. Joan of Toulouse's early life, but we do know that she was accepted into the Carmelite order in 1225. She was the founder of the first tertiary Carmelite order and schooled boys for preparing to enter the Carmelites.

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St. Angelo, May 5

Source Angelo was born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents who later converted to Christianity. At the age of eighteen, he and his twin brother became Carmelites. Angelo lived for five years as a hermit and then he went to Sicily to convert Jews. He was finally stabbed to death in 1220.

St. Gertrude of Nivelles, Mar. 17

Source Gertrude was born in Landen in 626 and was the daughter of Bls. Pepin and Itta. She refused to marry, becoming a nun instead. After her father died, her mother founded a double monastery at Nivelles. She became abbess in 652, the year that her mother died. She died on March 17, 659.

St. Anselm of Nonantola, Mar. 3

Source Anselm was a duke in earlier life, and he served his brother-in-law who was a king. He left for Rome to be a monk in around 753. He was later appointed abbot and given permission to inter Pope Sylvester's remains into his abbey. He died in 803, having been a Benedictine for fifty years.

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