Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata
Beatified Italian nun
Feast: 15 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata (1562 – 15 December 1617) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Order of the Annunciation – or Blue Nuns. Fornari was married for just under a decade and decided not to find another spouse after having a vision of the Madonna who instructed her to lead a chaste life of motherhood. The widow decided to found an order not long after this, based on the Carmelite charism.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q1773411 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata (CC BY-SA)
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