Elena Duglioli was an Italian Roman Catholic aristocrat from Bologna noted for her devotion to Christian life and social teachings.
11 Facts About Elena Duglioli
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Elena Duglioli is best known for commissioning a chapel with an image of Saint Cecilia to whom she was devoted.
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Elena Duglioli's beatification received confirmation from Pope Leo XII on 26 March 1828 after the approval of her local 'cultus'.
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Elena Duglioli was born in Bologna in 1472 to the aristocrats Silverio Duglioli and Pentisilea Boccaferri.
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Elena Duglioli remained married to her husband for a total of three decades before he died and left her widowed.
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Elena Duglioli was a close friend of Antonio Pucci who was the nephew of Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci.
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Personalities such as Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X learned of Elena Duglioli and drew from her wisdom and insight despite never having met her.
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Elena Duglioli harbored a particular devotion to Saint Cecilia and the papal legate to Bologna - Cardinal Francesco Alidosi - gave her a knucklebone relic of the late saint to keep.
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Elena Duglioli's incorrupt remains are housed in the church of San Giovanni in Monte.
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The beatification for Elena Duglioli received official confirmation on 26 March 1828 once Pope Leo XII approved her local 'cultus' - or popular devotion.
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Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini - the future Pope Benedict XIV - spoke in favor of Elena Duglioli's beatification was in its initial stages and as pontiff mentioned her in his "De Servorum Dei Beatificatione et Beatorum Canonizatione" as an example of a spontaneous and popular cultus.