Blessed Filippa Guidoni
Also known as: Felipa Guidoni
Feast Day
29-Aug
Died
29 August 1335 of natural causes; interred in the Santa Maria de Valverde abbey, Arezzo, Italy; relics transferred to the Holy Spirit monastery in 1520 when her community moved there; relics transferred and re-enshrined when the Holy Spirit monastery was converted into a mental hospital
Beatified
Has not been formally beatified, but devotion started immediately after her death
Biography
Blessed Filippa Guidoni, also known as Felipa Guidoni, was born to a noble family in Arezzo, Italy. Little is known about her early life, but it is believed that she was strongly influenced by the spiritual teachings of Blessed Santuccia Terrebotti, the founder of the Santucci (later Servants of Mary) religious community.
Cause for Canonization
Books & Resources
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612787169
Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226066398
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