There were two rival Popes, making for schism and Civil War. Lorenzo was wounded fighting on behalf of the true Pope.
In the aftermath of the conflicts, he lost his estates. Their home was destroyed, and their one surviving son taken hostage. As if that were not enough, Rome was beset with looting, famine, and plague. And we think we have troubles...
Francesca rose to the occasion.
She fixed up the ruins of her home, and opened a hospital. With poor and suffering people all around her, Francesca became a kind of Mother Teresa, compassionate and wonderfully effective.
She fed and housed the poor sick picked up on the streets. She arranged for priests to minister to the dying. She reconciled enemies and calmed the rage of those plotting revenge.
After the troubles caused by the schism in the Church, Lorenzo came home to her, but he was a broken man both physically and mentally. Francesca cared for him with every tenderness.
~bron~
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