April 11th St. Sancha of Portugal
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April 11th St. Sancha of Portugal
Saint Sancha was born in the year 1180 in Portugal and was born a princess, the daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal; sister of Blessed Mafilda and Saint Theresa of Portugal. She devoted herself to charity, supported the Franciscans and Dominicans in Portugal including helping Franciscan missionaries en route to Morocco. Founded a Cistercian monastery in Coimbra, Portugal where she spent the rest of her life in a cell there. She died in her cell in Coimbra, Portugal on 11 April 1229 and buried in the abbey at Lorvão, Portugal.
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales