This woman, Saint Rose of Viterbo, sounds like a remarkable person, even from her early youth. She was born in 1234 in Viterbo, Italy. It is said that at age 3 she brought a person back to life. By age 10 she was preaching on the streets. She was a prophetess and a Francisian tertiary. She tried many times, but was repeatedly refused entrance into the Poor Clares. After her death, Pope Alexander IV ordered that her body be laid to rest in the convent that refused her. She died on March 6, 1252. She was canonized in 1457 by Pope Callistus III. She is the patron of exiles, people rejected by religious orders, tertiaries, and her hometown of Viterbo, Italy.
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