Ludovica Albertoni
Lodovica degli Albertoni, Luise Albertoni (* 1474, † 1533), was a Franciscan Tertiarin (see Third Order ) and mystic, venerated in her hometown of Rome was beatified after the January 28, 1671 by Pope Clement X. had been beatified.
Life
Ludovica came from the Roman patrician family degli Albertoni. At the age of twenty, she was married to Giacomo della Cetera. Since 1506 in widowhood, she joined the Tertiaries of the Franciscan Order and lived to prayer and asceticism. Their mystical piety was honored with the grace of prophecy and miracles activity. Ludovica was also active in charitable, spent a fortune in caring for the needy, the sick and poor children and did particularly distinguished with the aid of the victims of the Sack of Rome in 1527.
Cult
On January 28, 1671 Pope Clement X permitted her veneration as the beatified. Your feast is locally on January 31.
On January 17, 1674 her relics were transferred to the Roman church of San Francesco a Ripa. For the local altar in the Anna Chapel Gianlorenzo Bernini had the aged 1674 sculpture " The Ecstasy of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni ," his last work created.