Veronica Giuliani
| Saint Veronica Giuliani | |
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| Abbess and Catholic mystic | |
| Born |
December 27, 1660 Mercatello, Italy (Duchy of Urbino) |
| Died | July 9, 1727 (aged 66) Città di Castello, Italy |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | June 17, 1804 by Pope Pius VII |
| Canonized | May 26, 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI |
| Major shrine | Monastery of St. Veronica Giuliani, Città di Castello |
| Feast | July 9 |
| Attributes | Crowned with thorns and embracing a crucifix |
Saint Veronica Giuliani, O.S.C. Cap., (Veronica de Julianis) (December 27, 1660 – July 9, 1727) was an Italian Capuchin Poor Clares nun and mystic. She was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839.
She was born Orsola [Ursula] Giuliani at Mercatello in the Duchy of Urbino on December 27, 1660. Her parents were Francesco and Benedetta Mancini Giuliani. She was the youngest of seven sisters, three of whom embraced the monastic life.
It is told that at the age of three years Ursula supposedly began to show great compassion for the poor. She would set apart a portion of her food for them, and even part with her clothes when she met a poor child scantily clad. Her mother died when Ursula was seven years of age.
When others did not readily join in her religious practices she was inclined to be dictatorial. At the age of 16, she experienced a vision which corrected this imperfection of character: she saw her own heart as a "heart of steel". In her writings she confesses that she took a certain pleasure in the more stately circumstances which her family adopted when her father was appointed superintendent of finance at Piacenza. When Veronica came of age, her father believed she should marry, and so he desired her to take part in the social activities of the young people. But she pleaded so earnestly with her father that, after much resistance, he finally permitted her to choose her own state in life.
In 1677, at the age of 17, Ursula was received into the monastery of the Capuchin Poor Clares in Città di Castello in Umbria, Italy, taking the name of Veronica in memory of the Passion. At the conclusion of the ceremony of her reception, the bishop said to the abbess: "I commend this new daughter to your special care, for she will one day be a great saint."
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