Blessed Michelina of Pesaro
- Also known as
- Michelina Metelli
- Memorial
- 20 June
- Profile
- Italian nobility.
Married Duke Malatesta at age 12.
Widowed at age 20.
Her only child died, and she decided to take orders.
Her family so strongly opposed this that they locked her up and declared her insane.
When set free, she gave away her wealth and became a Franciscan tertiary.
- Born
- 1300 at Pesaro, Urbino, Italy
- Died
- 1356 of natural causes
- Beatified
- 13 April 1737 by Pope Clement XII (cultus confirmed)
- Patronage
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against death of children
against insanity
against mental illness
in-law problems
mentally ill people
widows
- Representation
- young Franciscan tertiary kneeling in ecstasy in the midst of a storm with a pilgrim's hat and staff beside her
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