Smeralda
Calafato, beautifulst child of noble family, was born to Messina 25 March 1434
near the Announced village where the parents were themselves shelters to you in
order to avoid the contagion of the plague that in that period imperversava.
Still
adolescent Smeralda, to which expecting did not lack sure to the wedding, had
two fiancèes who died one after the other; this painful test made to mature in
She the religious vocation, decided to dedicate its life to the immortale Spouse.
Caulker not to look at their preprefer daughter sluice in a
nunnery and wanted to make to marry it with a messinese nobleman. The girl,
for how much remissiva and in subjection, had by now decided what to make of its
life and therefore scappò from the parental home in order to embrace the Divine
Love. Smeralda became Clarisse in the Monastero di Basicò with the name of
Eustochia, name that It chose in virtue of one disciple of Saint Girolamo,
virginity model.
Clarissa
the Eustochia thought that the hardest before rule of Chiara Saint adequately
was not observed in the Monastero of Basicò and therefore, after a dispute with
the Abbess and the other sisters, abandoned the monastero where it was remained
eleven years and, with the aid of a rich uncle, decided to found a Monastery in
the Street of the Dromo (today Street 24 May) that it called of
MONTEVERGINE
.
Eustochia
saint died 20 January 1485.
Today its
body incorrupt, beyond 500 years from its dead women, comes exposed to the
venerazione of the faithfuls in the Monastero from founded She. To the Saint
Smeralda Eustochia Caulker the hats grow still today and the nails that come to
Them cut to you to every year in occasion of the celebrations in Its 22 honor
August.
