We have not space to give an account of the life of the blessed Francesca as a superior, or to detail the miracles she was enabled to work; for these we refer the English reader to the life of this saint by Lady Georgiana Fullerton. On March 3rd, 1440, when Francesca was fifty-six years old, she was sent for to see her son Baptista, who was laid up with a sharp attack of fever. She instantly obeyed the summons, and spent the day at the Ponziano palace; but towards evening she grew so ill that she could scarcely stand. However, she persisted in returning to her convent. On her way she stopped at the church of S. Maria in Trastevere, and found there her confessor, Giovanni Mattiotti, who, noticing her altered looks, ordered her at once to return to her son's house. The order was a trial to her, for she felt that she would never again enter the hallowed walls of Tor di Specchi; but, faithful to the spirit of perfect obedience, she went back to the palace. In the course of the night a virulent fever came on, and she became so seriously ill that all hopes of her recovery were abandoned. And now the angel had nearly done his mystic task, the golden web was complete, and he folded up the glistening tissue about the palm. The day of March 9th was far advanced. "What are you saying?" asked her confessor, seeing her lips move. "The vespers of the Blessed Virgin," she answered, in a scarcely audible voice. As an infant she had begun the practice; and on the eve of her death she had not omitted it. S. Francesca was canonized May 29th, 1608. Relics in S. Maria Nuova, at Rome. In art she appears with an angel by her side, sometimes contemplating Hell open. [Illustration: HATRED AND MALICE. Symbolic carving at the Abbey of S. Denis.] March 10. SS. CAIUS AND ALEXANDER, _MM. at Apamea, in Phrygia, after_ A.D. 171. SS. CODRATUS, DIONYSIUS, CYPRIAN, ANECTUS, AND OTHERS, _MM. at Corinth, circ._ A.D. 258. SS. FORTY MARTYRS OF SEBASTE, _circ._ A.D. 320. S. MACARIUS, _B. of Jerusalem, circ._ A.D. 335. S. KESSOG, _B. in Scotland, 6th cent._ S. ANASTASIUS THE PATRICIAN, _C. in Egypt_, A.D. 567. S. DROCTOVEUS, _Ab. at S. Germain, in Paris, circ._ A.D. 576. S. ATTALUS, _Ab. of Bobbio, in Italy_, A.D. 626. S. HYMELIN, _P. at Visenaeken, in Belgium, 8th cent._ B. JOHN SARCANDER, _P.M. at Holleschan, in Upper Silesia_, A.D. 1620.[40] [40] Roman Martyrology. He was born at Skotsoehan, in 1576, then became priest of Holleschan, where he was put to death with the utmost barbarity by Protestants, on March 10th, 1624, partly out of hatred to his religion, partly because he would not disclose the secrets of the confessional. SS. CAIUS AND ALEXANDER, MM. (AFTER A.D. 171.) [Roman Martyrology, and those of Ado, Notker, &c. Authority:--Eusebius, lib. v. c. 16.]