Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The Holy washerwoman

St. Hunna

 

Facts

Feastday: April 15
Patron of laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen
Death: 679

Called the Holy Washerwoman, a noblewoman who devoted herself to the poor of Strasbourg, France.

 The daughter of a duke and wife of Huno of Hunnaweyer, she even washed the poor, hence her name.

 She was canonized in 1520 by Pope Leo X.

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