1. Gertrude Prosperi recounted that she experienced a series of angelic visions in which she witnessed the Passion of Jesus Christ and she began to feel tremendous pain while continuing to experience a range of visions and emotions brought on due to these things.
Gertrude Prosperi was well known among her peers for strict observance to the Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia and for her ardent devotion to both the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Eucharist.
Gertrude Prosperi was baptized right after she was born in the parish church of Saint Hippolytus.
Gertrude Prosperi had a stable Christian upbringing and Prosperi became inspired in the Christian example that a maternal aunt possessed.
Gertrude Prosperi felt called to the religious life after a period of deep contemplation and in order to fulfill her desire she entered the Order of Saint Benedict through the convent of Santa Lucia in Trevi on 4 May 1820 and assumed the religious name of "Maria Luisa Angelica" upon her solemn profession after she completed her novitiate.
Gertrude Prosperi had an intense devotion to the Eucharist in addition to her ardent devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - the latter which spouted from her vision pertaining to the Sacred Heart.
Gertrude Prosperi was known among her peers for her strict observance to the Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia and for her persistent revitalization of the Rule's importance upon its members.
Gertrude Prosperi's health took on a rapid downfall in 1847 and grew worse during Holy Week.
Gertrude Prosperi died on 13 September 1847 - as she wanted, in a cruciform posture - and was buried in the church of Santa Lucia in Trevi.
Gertrude Prosperi's writings were left preserved and were copied when her Jesuit confessor Father Paterniani wrote the first chronicle of her life in 1870.
On 1 July 2010 she was declared to be Venerable after Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the fact that Gertrude Prosperi had indeed lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue which he deemed that she had exercised well to a favorable degree to that which was required of the cause to assess.
Gertrude Prosperi's beatification was celebrated in Perugia on 10 November 2012 - Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the liturgical celebration on the behalf of the pontiff.