Background
She was born in Urbino to Guido Antonio of Montefeltro, Count of Urbino, and Caterina Colonna in the first half of 1434.
She was born in Urbino to Guido Antonio of Montefeltro, Count of Urbino, and Caterina Colonna in the first half of 1434.
She was beatified by Pope Benedict XIV in 1754, and her feast is kept on 9 September by Franciscans. In 1448 Seraphina married Alessandro Sforza, Lord of Pesaro. In 1475 Seraphina was elected abbess of the monastery at Pesaro, where she died in 1478.
Her body, exhumed some years after her death, was found incorrupt, and is preserved in Pesaro Cathedral.