1. Edvige Carboni was an Italian Roman Catholic from Sardinia who relocated to Rome and became well known among the faithful and religious alike for her ecstasies and angelic visions.
23 Facts About Edvige Carboni
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Edvige Carboni recorded an extensive spiritual journal in which she recorded appearances from Jesus Christ as well as saints such as Gemma Galgani and John Bosco.
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Edvige Carboni received her baptism on the following 4 May 1880 from the vice-parish priest Sanna.
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Edvige Carboni started school in 1886 and finished three grades of education.
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Edvige Carboni's mother recalled Carboni's birth and told her that on that occasion she had seen a luminous host in the monstrance and would tell her daughter this because: "If I die, you must receive Holy Communion every day and you should be very good, because Jesus, a few moments after you were born, showed me a host, as I have told you".
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Edvige Carboni's mother taught her embroidery as a child and she would work with her father in the embroidery business.
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Edvige Carboni spent time in the convent of the Sisters of Saint Vincent in Alghero where the nuns led a course in embroidery.
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Edvige Carboni wanted to become a nun in 1895 but her mother disapproved of it and she took this disapproval as a sign of the will of God.
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Edvige Carboni became a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis in 1906 and belonged to an association known as the Friends of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus; she began recording her thoughts in a spiritual journal.
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Edvige Carboni's mother died in 1910 and her responsibilities tripled.
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Edvige Carboni was required to do the shopping due to her mother's ill health despite being fearful of having to shop in the evening.
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Edvige Carboni attended her brother Galdino's marriage to Penelope Gerundini.
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Edvige Carboni received the transverberation and recorded a case of demonic encounter in December 1941.
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Edvige Carboni once was confined to her bed for a while after a hammer hit her in the knees.
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Edvige Carboni began to experience bilocation in 1925 and this grew greater during World War II.
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Edvige Carboni's father did not want Paulina to leave so the entire family relocated from Sardinia to the mainland.
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Edvige Carboni spent the last fourteen years of her life living with her sister Paulina in Rome.
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Edvige Carboni received praise for her piety from the Servant of God Giovanni Battista Manzella and priests such as Ernesto Maria Piovella and Felice Cappello.
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Edvige Carboni's sister summoned a doctor and two priests from their parish who gave her the Last Rites.
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Edvige Carboni died of angina pectoris at 10:30pm and was buried in Albano Laziale.
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Edvige Carboni's grave was with that of her brother Galdino and his wife.
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Edvige Carboni's remains from a white coffin were exhumed in October 2015 for canonical inspection as part of the canonization cause.
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Edvige Carboni's remains were relocated as a result of this.