She is considered the patron saint of travellers,[1] and specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims, flight attendants, and the city of Pisa.

On her trip home with some of her traveling companions, she was captured by Muslim pirates on the Mediterranean Sea, wounded, and subsequently imprisoned.

Shortly thereafter, she set out on another pilgrimage, this time with a large number of pilgrims on the long and dangerous journey to Santiago de Compostela, where James the Greater is honored.

Despite being ill at the time, she attempted a tenth trip, but returned home to Pisa, dying shortly thereafter in the room she kept near the Church of San Martino, where her body has been preserved to the present day.

[4] Roman Martyrology: "In Pisa, Saint Bona, virgin, who made frequent pilgrimages with devotion to the Holy Land, to Rome and to Compostela.