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Bona
was born in Pisa in the twelfth century. When she was three
years old, her father traveled to the Holy Land to fight in
the Crusades and never returned. Bona had her first vision at
the age of seven, when the Saviour appeared and told her to
stop sleeping with her mother. And when she was thirteen, her
mother had a vision telling her to send her daughter to find
her father. Find him she did, along with his new wife and three
sons. On her way back home, Bona befriended a Holy hermit. The
two were captured and held hostage by a gang of pirates they
had tried to convert. But Bona escaped, thanks to the intervention
of St. James the Greater. When she returned home, she organized
the first of ten pilgrimages to this saints shrine, over 1,000
miles away in Spain. Because of her extensive travels, Pope
John XXIII officially made Bona the patron of flight attendants
in 1962. Her feast day is May 29. |
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