Aldobrandesca (also known as Alda) (, Siena, Italy – ) was an Italian saint and mystic. A short description of her life was published in 1584, which was later translated into Latin and published in the Acta Sanctorum.
Aldobrandesca (also known as Alda) (, Siena, Italy – ) was an Italian saint and mystic. A short description of her life was published in 1584, which was later translated into Latin and published in the Acta Sanctorum.
Aldobrandesca was "a matron of good standing"; when she was a young woman, her parents arranged a marriage for her, which she reluctantly agreed to and she grew to love her husband. After seven years, she was widowed but had no children, so she chose to remain celibate and dedicate herself to prayer. She retired to a small house outside Siena, where she participated in almsgiving and mortification. She wore a hair shirt "to fight persistent sexual temptations" and erotic memories about her husband, although according to her biographer, the temptations did not end. She had many visions about the life of Christ.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).