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In the revelation of Mary to St. Brigid, we read that even she had to struggle in order to acquire more virtues. Although this was done in a way altogether different from that of the miserable sons of Adam, it doesn’t mean that Mary because of Her holiness did not feel in Her humanity the fatigue which the practice of true virtue imposes.

st. Magdalena di Canossa
Catechesis

Magdalene opened the schools in which she started to educate girls and women who could not have partecipated to other tipes of education. She opened one school to prepare future teachers for the villages.

She engaged herself in taking care of the sick in hospitals.

She guided and organized spiritual retreats for women from nobile families to let them deepen their spiritual life end engaged them in the apostolic activities for the needy, as she and her companions, were doing.