14 Facts About Veronica Giuliani

Veronica Giuliani was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839.

Veronica Giuliani was the youngest of seven sisters, three of whom chose the monastic life.

Veronica Giuliani would set apart a portion of her food for them, and even part with her clothes when she met a poor child scantily clad.

Veronica Giuliani's mother died when Ursula was seven years of age.

When Veronica Giuliani came of age, her father believed she should marry, and so he desired her to take part in the social activities of the young people.

Veronica Giuliani became absolutely submissive to the will of her spiritual directors, though her novitiate was marked by extraordinary interior trials and temptations to return to the world.

Veronica Giuliani governed the convent with obvious common sense and guided the novices with prudence.

Veronica Giuliani had a lifelong devotion to Christ crucified that eventually became manifested in physical signs.

Veronica Giuliani was humiliated by the stigmata itself and by her bishop's rigorous testing of her experience.

Veronica Giuliani removed her from ordinary community life and put her under constant observation.

Veronica Giuliani was beatified by Pope Pius VII on 17 June 1804 and was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI on 26 May 1839.

Veronica Giuliani is usually represented in art crowned with thorns and embracing the cross.

Veronica Giuliani's body remained incorrupt for several years but was eventually destroyed by a flood; her relics are now placed in a lifelike figure.

Emmanuel founded a congregation, the Little Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in 2015 and he believes Veronica Giuliani "has chosen Lebanon as a country to begin, or to intensify, her mission because Lebanon loves Our Lady a lot and has a very deep relationship with Mary".