February 4th is also the Feast of St. Maria de Mattias.
The above picture hangs in our museum in Albano, a place I visited recently. I also had the joy of attending Maria's Canonization, an event that was completely skipped by CWN which is when I cancelled my subscription. Why subscribe to something that fails to report on the Catholic World? You can find stuff about her canonization by searching the archives of my old blog for reports.
Material about her life can be found here.
Here is the sermon that Venerable Merlini preched at here funeral.
Pope John Paul II's homily at her canonization can be found here.
