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Bianca Piccolomini Clementini
Italian nun, foundress - b. Siena 1877 - d. 1959
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Born
7 April 1875
Vatican record
Died
14 August 1959
Vatican record
Venerable
3 March 2016
Vatican record
Canonised
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not yet
The Vatican record
- 3 March 2016 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2016)
Who they were
Bianca Piccolomini Clementini (1875 – 1959) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Company of Saint Angela Merici, the original name for the Ursuline order in Italy, in 1920. Pope Francis declared her venerable in 2016.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
No miracle approved yet
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
Connected on this site
- Angela Merici Saint“Bianca Piccolomini Clementini (1875 – 1959) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Company of Saint Angela Merici, the original name for the Ursuline order in Italy, in 1920.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q63107284 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bianca Piccolomini Clementini (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.