Saint veronica giuliani biography of rory
She was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI in Saint Veronica Giuliani's Story Veronica's desire to be like Christ crucified was answered with the stigmata....
Veronica Giuliani, Saint
Veronica Giuliani, Saint, b.
at Mercatello in the Duchy of Urbino, Italy, 1660; d. at Citta di Castello, July 9, 1727. Her parents, Francesco Giuliana and Benedetta Mancini, were both of gentle birth.
Above each statue is a relic chapel built to contain a relic attributed to that saint.
In baptism she was named Ursula, and showed marvellous signs of sanctity. When but eighteen months old she uttered her first words to upbraid a shopman who was serving a false measure of oil, saying distinctly: “Do justice, God sees you”.
At the age of three years she began to be favored with Divine communications, and 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.
BOOK I Containing an account of her life in the world, and of the most important events in the first fifteen years of her religious career, together with a.
These traits and a great love for the Cross developed as she grew older. When others did not readily join in her religious practices she was inclined to be dictatorial. In her sixteenth year this imperfection of character was brought home to her in a vision in which she sa