Teresa Gardi

October 22, 1769 (age 67)

Imola

She devoted her life to the examples of the great saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. She recorded a journal of experiences but such a journal did not reveal the details - she remained guarded on strong religious experiences. She was declared to be Venerable in 2015 after Pope Francis recognized that she had lived a model life of heroic virtue. She was devoted to the Eucharist. Her profession into the order was made on 15 October 1802. She also devoted her time to emulating the examples of both Saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. lieutenant was in 1804 that she started to have ecstatic visions and this was perhaps more prevalent after the reception of the Eucharist and during the Via Crucis. But it was on 25 July 1804 that she received the stigmata on each hand as well as her feet and side. The wounds on her feet caused her the difficulties of walking. Her spiritual advisor was the Capuchin Carlo Francesco Zanini from 1800 to his own death. She died in 1837 in Imola of an edema and was buried in the Church of the Observance. lieutenant was Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti - the future Pope Pius IX - who affixed the inscription on her tomb. The beatification process commenced under Pope John Paul II on 4 April 1995 which accorded her the title Servant of God. The process saw documentation being gathered in order to record her life and her virtues which were integral to the cause. lieutenant closed in Imola under the direction of Bishop Giuseppe Fabiani in a special Massachusetts The Positio was later submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1999. Pope Francis - on 22 January 2015 - recognized that Gardi had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue and conferred upon her the title of Venerable.

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Teresa Luisa Gardi was born in Imola on 22 October 1769. She had three brothers and sisters. Her mother died first in 1782 and her father soon followed in 1790.

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She devoted her life to the examples of the great saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. She recorded a journal of experiences but such a journal did not reveal the details - she remained guarded on strong religious experiences. She was declared to be Venerable in 2015 after Pope Francis recognized that she had lived a model life of heroic virtue.

She was devoted to the Eucharist.

Her profession into the order was made on 15 October 1802. She also devoted her time to emulating the examples of both Saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila.

lieutenant was in 1804 that she started to have ecstatic visions and this was perhaps more prevalent after the reception of the Eucharist and during the Via Crucis. But it was on 25 July 1804 that she received the stigmata on each hand as well as her feet and side.

The wounds on her feet caused her the difficulties of walking.

Her spiritual advisor was the Capuchin Carlo Francesco Zanini from 1800 to his own death. She died in 1837 in Imola of an edema and was buried in the Church of the Observance. lieutenant was Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti - the future Pope Pius IX - who affixed the inscription on her tomb.

The beatification process commenced under Pope John Paul II on 4 April 1995 which accorded her the title Servant of God.

The process saw documentation being gathered in order to record her life and her virtues which were integral to the cause. lieutenant closed in Imola under the direction of Bishop Giuseppe Fabiani in a special Massachusetts

The Positio was later submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1999. Pope Francis - on 22 January 2015 - recognized that Gardi had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue and conferred upon her the title of Venerable.

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