March 10 Feastday: St. Frances of Rome (1384-1440): She held a deep, mystical devotion to the Eucharist, often experiencing ecstasies and visions during 15th-century Mass and meditations. She regularly received Communion, practiced, and fostered intense adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Key aspects of her devotion include:
- Mystical Visions: Her intense love for the Eucharist often led to profound, divinely inspired visions such as this vision of August, 1431 as reported in Mystical Insights into the Depths of the Sacrament:
- When she received the Body of Christ, she was praying devoutly. The spirit of the saint was absorbed into a mystical rapture, while her body remained immobile in a trance-like state for a considerable period of time.
- Devotional Practice: She was known to spend long hours, sometimes entire nights, in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, particularly during periods of Forty Hours’ Devotion.
- Daily Life Integration: She frequently visited churches for adoration; her devotion described as a “foretaste of the glories of Heaven”.
- Confession and Penance: Her reception of the Eucharist was preceded by confession, fasting, and intense prayer.
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