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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Veronica Giuliani</title><script src="https://dtyry4ejybx0.cloudfront.net/js/cmp/cleanmediacmp.js?ver=0104" async="true"></script><script defer data-domain="newadvent.org" src="https://plausible.io/js/script.js"></script><link rel="canonical" href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15363a.htm"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="description" content="Short biographical article on this Capuchin, who died in 1727"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.newadvent.org/bestoftheweb?format=xml"><link rel="icon" href="../images/icon1.ico" type="image/x-icon"><link rel="shortcut icon" href="../images/icon1.ico" type="image/x-icon"><meta name="robots" content="noodp"><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../utility/screen6.css" media="screen"></head> <body class="cathen" id="15363a.htm">  <br/> <div id="capitalcity"><table summary="Logo" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr valign="bottom"><td align="left"><a href="../"><img height=36 width=153 border="0" alt="New Advent" src="../images/logo.gif"></a></td><td align="right"> <form id="searchbox_000299817191393086628:ifmbhlr-8x0" action="../utility/search.htm">  <input type="hidden" name="safe" value="active"> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="000299817191393086628:ifmbhlr-8x0"/> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9"/>  <label for="searchQuery" id="searchQueryLabel">Search:</label> <input id="searchQuery" name="q" type="text" size="25" aria-labelledby="searchQueryLabel"/>  <label for="submitButton" id="submitButtonLabel" class="visually-hidden">Submit Search</label> <input id="submitButton" type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" aria-labelledby="submitButtonLabel"/> </form> <table summary="Spacer" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td height="2"></td></tr></table> <table summary="Tabs" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../"> Home </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_white_on_color" href="../cathen/index.html"> Encyclopedia </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../summa/index.html"> Summa </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../fathers/index.html"> Fathers </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../bible/gen001.htm"> Bible </a></td> <td class="tab"><a class="tab_color_on_beige" href="../library/index.html"> Library </a></td> </tr></table> </td> </tr></table><table summary="Alphabetical index" width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td class="bar_white_on_color"> <a href="../cathen/a.htm"> A </a><a href="../cathen/b.htm"> B </a><a href="../cathen/c.htm"> C </a><a href="../cathen/d.htm"> D </a><a href="../cathen/e.htm"> E </a><a href="../cathen/f.htm"> F </a><a href="../cathen/g.htm"> G </a><a href="../cathen/h.htm"> H </a><a href="../cathen/i.htm"> I </a><a href="../cathen/j.htm"> J </a><a href="../cathen/k.htm"> K </a><a href="../cathen/l.htm"> L </a><a href="../cathen/m.htm"> M </a><a href="../cathen/n.htm"> N </a><a href="../cathen/o.htm"> O </a><a href="../cathen/p.htm"> P </a><a href="../cathen/q.htm"> Q </a><a href="../cathen/r.htm"> R </a><a href="../cathen/s.htm"> S </a><a href="../cathen/t.htm"> T </a><a href="../cathen/u.htm"> U </a><a href="../cathen/v.htm"> V </a><a href="../cathen/w.htm"> W </a><a href="../cathen/x.htm"> X </a><a href="../cathen/y.htm"> Y </a><a href="../cathen/z.htm"> Z </a> </td></tr></table></div> <div id="mobilecity" style="text-align: center; "><a href="../"><img height=24 width=102 border="0" alt="New Advent" src="../images/logo.gif"></a></div>  <div id="mi5"><span class="breadcrumbs"><a href="../">Home</a> > <a href="../cathen">Catholic Encyclopedia</a> > <a href="../cathen/v.htm">V</a> > St. Veronica Giuliani</span></div> <div id="springfield2"> <div class='catholicadnet-728x90' id='cathen-728x90-top' style='display: flex; height: 100px; align-items: center; justify-content: center; '></div> <h1>St. Veronica Giuliani</h1> <p><em><a href="https://gumroad.com/l/na2"><strong>Please help support the mission of New Advent</strong> and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more  all for only $19.99...</a></em></p> <p>Born at Mercatello in the Duchy of <a href="../cathen/15221b.htm">Urbino</a>, <a href="../cathen/08208a.htm">Italy</a>, 1660; died at <a href="../cathen/03793c.htm">Citt' di Castello</a>, 9 July, 1727. Her <a href="../cathen/11478c.htm">parents</a>, Francesco Giuliana and Benedetta Mancini, were both of gentle birth. In <a href="../cathen/02258b.htm">baptism</a> she was named Ursula, and showed marvelous signs of <a href="../cathen/07386a.htm">sanctity</a>. When but eighteen months old she uttered her first words to upbraid a shopman who was serving a <a href="../cathen/05781a.htm">false</a> measure of oil, saying distinctly: "Do <a href="../cathen/08571c.htm">justice</a>, <a href="../cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> sees you." At the age of three years she began to be favoured 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. These traits and a great <a href="../cathen/09397a.htm">love</a> 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 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 <a href="../cathen/05782a.htm">family</a> adopted when her father was appointed superintendent of finance at <a href="../cathen/12069a.htm">Piacenza</a>. But this did not in any way affect her early-formed resolution to dedicate herself to religion, although her father urged her to marry and procured for her several suitors as soon as she became of marriageable age. Owing to her father's opposition to her desire to enter a <a href="../cathen/04340c.htm">convent</a>, Veronica fell ill and only recovered when he gave his consent.</p> <div class="CMtag_300x250" style="display: flex; height: 300px; align-items: center; justify-content: center; "></div> <p>In 1677 she was received into the <a href="../cathen/04340c.htm">convent</a> of the <a href="../cathen/03320b.htm">Capuchin</a> <a href="../cathen/12251b.htm">Poor Clares</a> in <a href="../cathen/03793c.htm">Citt' di Castello</a>, taking the name of Veronica in memory of the Passion. At the conclusion of the <a href="../cathen/03538b.htm">ceremony</a> of her reception the <a href="../cathen/02581b.htm">bishop</a> said to the <a href="../cathen/01007e.htm">abbess</a>: "I commend this new daughter to your special care, for she will one day be a great saint." She became absolutely submissive to the will of her directors, though her <a href="../cathen/11144a.htm">novitiate</a> was marked by extraordinary interior trials and <a href="../cathen/14504a.htm">temptations</a> to return to the world. At her profession in 1678 she conceived a great desire to suffer in union with our Saviour crucified for the conversion of sinners. About this time she had a vision of <a href="../cathen/08374c.htm">Christ</a> bearing His cross and henceforth suffered an acute physical pain in her heart. After her death the figure of the cross was found impressed upon her heart. In 1693 she entered upon a new phase in her spiritual life, when she had a vision of the <a href="../cathen/03561a.htm">chalice</a> symbolizing the Divine Passion which was to be re-enacted in her own <a href="../cathen/14153a.htm">soul</a>. At first she shrank from accepting it and only by great effort eventually submitted. She then began to endure intense spiritual suffering. In 1694 she received the impression of the Crown of Thorns, the wounds being visible and the pain permanent. By order of the <a href="../cathen/02581b.htm">bishop</a> she submitted to medical treatment, but obtained no relief. Yet, although she lived in this supernaturally mystical life, she was a practical <a href="../cathen/15687b.htm">woman</a> of affairs. For thirty-four years she was novice-mistress, and guided the <a href="../cathen/11144a.htm">novices</a> with great <a href="../cathen/12517b.htm">prudence</a>. It is noticeable that she would not allow them to read mystical books. In 1716 she was elected <a href="../cathen/01007e.htm">abbess</a> and whilst holding that office enlarged the <a href="../cathen/04340c.htm">convent</a> and had a good system of water-pipes laid down, the <a href="../cathen/04340c.htm">convent</a> hitherto having been without a proper water supply. She was <a href="../cathen/02364b.htm">canonized</a> by <a href="../cathen/07006a.htm">Gregory XVI</a> in 1839. She is usually represented <a href="../cathen/04380a.htm">crowned</a> with thorns and embracing the Cross.</p> <div class='catholicadnet-728x90' id='cathen-728x90-bottom' style='display: flex; height: 100px; align-items: center; justify-content: center; '></div> <div class="pub"><h2>About this page</h2><p id="apa"><strong>APA citation.</strong> <span id="apaauthor">Hess, L.</span> <span id="apayear">(1912).</span> <span id="apaarticle">St. Veronica Giuliani.</span> In <span id="apawork">The Catholic Encyclopedia.</span> <span id="apapublisher">New York: Robert Appleton Company.</span> <span id="apaurl">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15363a.htm</span></p><p id="mla"><strong>MLA citation.</strong> <span id="mlaauthor">Hess, Lawrence.</span> <span id="mlaarticle">"St. Veronica Giuliani."</span> <span id="mlawork">The Catholic Encyclopedia.</span> <span id="mlavolume">Vol. 15.</span> <span id="mlapublisher">New York: Robert Appleton Company,</span> <span id="mlayear">1912.</span> <span id="mlaurl"><http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15363a.htm>.</span></p><p id="transcription"><strong>Transcription.</strong> <span id="transcriber">This article was transcribed for New Advent by Paul T. Crowley.</span> <span id="dedication">Dedicated to Mother Veronica of the Holy Face, PCC, Vicaress, Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Roswell, NM.</span></p><p id="approbation"><strong>Ecclesiastical approbation.</strong> <span id="nihil"><em>Nihil Obstat.</em> October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.</span> <span id="imprimatur"><em>Imprimatur.</em> +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.</span></p><p id="contactus"><strong>Contact information.</strong> The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. My email address is webmaster <em>at</em> newadvent.org. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads.</p></div> </div> <div id="ogdenville"><table summary="Bottom bar" width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td class="bar_white_on_color"><center><strong>Copyright © 2023 by <a href="../utility/contactus.htm">New Advent LLC</a>. 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