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Saint Paola Elisabetta Cerioli
Popular devotion December 24Widow and foundress

Saint Paola Elisabetta Cerioli

Italian mother who lost all her children and turned her grief into a home for orphans and poor rural families.

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Who was Saint Paola Elisabetta Cerioli?

Costanza Cerioli was born in Soncino, Lombardy, in 1816 and at nineteen was married to a much older, difficult man. Of their four children, three died as infants and the fourth, Carlo, died at sixteen; soon after, she was widowed. Instead of closing in on her grief, she used her inheritance to take in orphaned and abandoned children from the countryside, and in 1857 founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, taking the name Paola Elisabetta; she later founded the Brothers of the Holy Family for boys. She died on Christmas Eve, 1865, at Comonte near Bergamo, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2004.

Feast day and traditions

Her body rests in the motherhouse at Comonte di Seriate. She is a special intercessor for parents who have lost a child.

Prayer

Saint Paola Elisabetta, mother of orphans, comfort every parent who mourns a child and help us turn our sorrow into love. Amen.

Novena

To pray a novena that ends on the eve of the feast, begin on December 15 and finish on December 23.

Mass readings

Read the Mass readings for December 24 from the US bishops (USCCB).

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Celebrate as a family

On Christmas Eve, light a candle for family members who have died, especially children, and entrust them to Jesus.

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