Villana de Bottis

Who they were

Villana de Bottis was a mother of a family at Florence who left a worldly life and took the habit of the Sisters of the Penance of Saint Dominic, and who was known for her meditation on the passion of Christ, her austere way of life and her begging in the streets for the poor. The date of her beatification was not traced in this pass.

The miracles

The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

She gave up a worldly life for penance, prayer on the passion of Christ and begging in the streets for the poor.

Connected on this site

• Villana de' Botti Blessed
  “A Firenze, beata Villana de Bottis, madre di famiglia, che, abbandonata la vita mondana, prese l’abito delle Suore della Penitenza di San Domenico e rifulse nella meditazione sulla passione di Cristo e nell’austera condotta di vita, mendicando anche per le strade l’elemosina per i poveri.” — this site's research