The PDF version contains a special page format for printing. Every Christian is called by the Lord to embody the Word, and to make his or her life a mission.
And therefore, to recognize the word that God wants to say to the world through us. Maria Lorenza: pilgrimage and eagerness to serve. Maria Requenses was born in the Catalan region probably in Lleida, in during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
While still in her youth, she married Joan Llonc, with whom she had several children. During these years, Maria was fundamentally a wife and mother, living a hidden life of service and dedication to her family. Her day to day life became disturbed due to a tragic attempt at poisoning by a maid, which left Maria paralyzed and in poor health, with limitations and great suffering.
In the meantime, during the last part of the fifteenth century the territorial unity of the Iberian Peninsula was taking shape under the dominion of the "Catholic" kings. The Hispanic crown dominated the seas, finding new horizons of expansion in the Americas.
And in the Mediterranean, the Spanish power reached the island of Sardinia and then the kingdom of Naples in southern Italy. Joan Llonc was sent to Naples to accompany the king as regent and serve in his chancellery. The whole family moved there, whose surname, Italianized, became Longo. During these years, Maria's heart learned to suffer with love the restrictions of her illness and of being uprooted from her native land. A few years later, her husband's death left her in an even more vulnerable situation: widow, disabled and dependent.
