Camilla Battista da Varano

Camilla Battista Varano (* April 9, 1458 in Camerino, Marche, Italy, † May 31, 1524 there ), was an Italian Poor Clare mystic and. It is in the Catholic Church venerated as a saint.

Life

Camilla Varano was a princess, the daughter of the Duke of Camerino and the former general commander of the Venetian Giulio Cesare Varano. Very early on she developed a deep relationship with the suffering of Jesus. Of this act also their later writings, without the hl. Margaret Mary Alacoque characteristic atonement thoughts to unfold. In her writings, many of which are still unpublished, she was a pioneer of the modern Sacred Heart devotion.

On November 14, 1481 Camilla Varano entered the Poor Clare Monastery to Urbino and was given the religious name Battista. In 1484 she moved in, which was founded by their father new Poor Clare Monastery of Santa Chiara in her native town of Camerino, where he was in 1499 elected abbess. In 1502, her father and three brothers of Cesare Borgia were murdered. 1505 founded Sr. Battista at the request of Pope Julius II, a monastery in Fermo, but returned after two years returned to Camerino, where she remained on the Pest abbess until her death. The funeral services were held in the ducal palace. Battista Sr. is buried in Camerino in choir of Santa Chiara. Pope Gregory XVI. she said on April 7, 1843 blessed. The canonization of Camilla Battista Varano by Pope Benedict XVI. was held on October 17, 2010. Your Memorial Day in the liturgy is May 31

Works

• The spiritual life ( Vita spirituale )
• Instructions for a disciple ( Istruzioni al discepolo )
• Memories of Jesus (I ricordi di Gesu )
• Our Lord's suffering soul: considered by the Blessed Baptista Varani, from the Order of St. Clara ( Dolori mentali the Gesu nella sua Passione ), Innsbruck 1872
• Letter for the spiritual father ( Lettera al padre spirituale )