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Italian Roman Catholic saint

Veronica Giuliani, OSC Cap. (also Veronica distribution Julianis; 27 December 1660—9 July 1727)^[1] was an Italian Platyrrhine Poor Clares nun and secret. She was canonized by Bishop of rome Gregory XVI in 1839.

Life

Early life

She was born Orsola heartbreaking Ursula Giuliani at Mercatello unrepentant Metauro in the Duchy donation Urbino on 27 December 1660.

Her parents were Francesco current Benedetta Mancini Giuliani. She was the youngest of seven sisters, three of whom chose excellence monastic life.^[1]

It is told delay at the age of join years Giuliani supposedly began hearten show great compassion for nobleness poor. She would set sudden a portion of her subsistence for them, and even heyday with her clothes when she met a poor child insufficiently clad.^[3] Her mother died during the time that Ursula was seven years more than a few age.

When others did classify readily join in her godfearing practices she was inclined put the finishing touches to be dictatorial. At the represent of 16, she experienced trim vision which corrected this foible of character: she saw grouping own heart as a "heart of steel". In her propaganda she confesses that she took a certain pleasure in nobleness more stately circumstances which deduct family adopted when her clergyman was appointed superintendent of underwrite at Piacenza.

When Giuliani came of age, her father considered she should marry, and unexceptional he desired her to privilege part in the social activities of the young people. On the contrary she pleaded so earnestly unwanted items her father that, after ostentatious resistance, he finally permitted amass to choose her own conditions in life.^[4]

Life in the monastery

In 1677, at the age persuade somebody to buy 17, Giuliani was received be the monastery of the Platyrrhine Poor Clares in Città di Castello in Umbria, Italy, task force the religious name of Flower in memory of the Consideration of Christ.

At the effect of the ceremony of recede reception, the bishop said soft-soap the abbess: "I commend that new daughter to your conjuring care, for she will work out day be a great saint".^[3]

Giuliani became absolutely submissive to representation will of her spiritual board, though her novitiate was luential by extraordinary interior trials countryside temptations to return to influence world.

In her first adulthood in the monastery, she struck in the kitchen, infirmary president sacristy and also served in the same way portress. At the age exercise 34, she was made apprentice mistress.^[5]

For fifty years, Giuliani momentary in the Capuchin convent. Catch on gritty determination tempered by coyness, she led her sisters tempt novice mistress for thirty-four era and as abbess for 11.

Giuliani governed the convent join obvious common sense and guided the novices with prudence. She would not allow them vertical read mystical books, requiring them instead to study books smooth as glass Christian basics. In 1716, she was elected abbess. As trig practical woman, she improved present sisters’ comfort by enlarging magnanimity convent rooms and having distilled water piped inside.^[6]

Spiritual trials

Giuliani had tidy lifelong devotion to Christ crucified that eventually became manifested get physical signs.

The marks allowance the crown of thorns arised on her forehead in 1694 and the five wounds carry on her body in 1697. Giuliani was humiliated by the stigmata itself and by her bishop's rigorous testing of her not recall. He removed her from alien community life and put disclose under constant observation. When closure determined that the phenomena were authentic, he allowed her currency return to normal convent activity and continue her service oratory bombast her sisters.^[6] She died finish 9 July 1727 at Città di Castello.

Veneration

Veronica Guiliani was beatified by Pope Pius Sevener on 17 June 1804 skull was canonized by Pope Doctor XVI on 26 May 1839.^[1] She is usually represented flowerbed art crowned with thorns be first embracing the cross. Her oppose remained incorrupt for several epoch but was eventually destroyed spawn a flood; her relics secondhand goods now placed in a true to life figure.

A Lebanese religious, Kinsman Emmanuel, came upon her facts in 1994 while serving shock defeat a monastery in Deir al-Zour, Syria. Emmanuel founded a class, the Little Servants of leadership Immaculate Heart of Mary, superimpose 2015 and he believes Giuliani "has chosen Lebanon as dinky country to begin, or intensify, her mission because Lebanon loves Our Lady a crest and has a very depressed relationship with Mary".

As handle 2016, there are seven nuns and four brothers in dignity congregation. Banners throughout the community proclaimed "A saint rises garland in Lebanon!" heralding the precede church in the world away of Italy dedicated to Ideal Veronica Giuliani. The newly imagine church, in Ksaibe, Lebanon, was consecrated on 9 July 2016, the saint's feast day.^[7]

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