Optional Memorial
Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order
- Feast day
- February 17
- Origin
- Italian
Life
Seven Florentine merchants renounced their worldly lives in 1233 and withdrew to Monte Senario to live in community, founding the Order of the Servants of Mary (Servites), devoted to the sorrows of the Blessed Virgin.
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