Aldobrandesca [SEP] canonization status
Aldobrandesca
Saint Alda (or Aldobrandesca) (c. 1249 – c. 1309) was an Italian Christian saint and nurse.
Biography.
St Alda was born in Siena, Italy and became widowed and childless after seven years of marriage. She retired to a cottage outside Siena and devoted herself to almsgiving and asceticism. She experienced visions of Jesus performing the deeds recorded in the gospels. Eventually, she gave away all of her possessions and used only a small gourd for a drinking cup.
She gave up her hermitage
Palazzo Orsini, Sorano
- Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Santa Fiora
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Arcidosso
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Buriano
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Campagnatico
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Cana
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Capalbio
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Castell'Azzara
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Giglio Castello
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Manciano
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Porto Ercole
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Roccalbegna
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Rocchette di Fazio
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Saturnia
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Scarlino
- Rocca Aldobrandesca, Semproniano