Umiliana de' Cerchi
Umiliana de' Cerchi | |
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| Born | 1219 Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Died | 19 May 1246 (aged 27) Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 24 July 1694, Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States by Pope Innocent XII |
| Feast | 19 May |
Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219 - 19 May 1246) was an Italian Roman Catholic widow and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.
She came from the Cerchi family, prominent merchants, and was married in her mid-adolescence as part of a political alliance that her ambitious father had engineered though her husband later died and she fled to become a Franciscan after her father pressured her into accepting a second marriage.
Her beatification received approval from Pope Innocent XII on 24 July 1694 after the latter formalized her beatification in the recognition of the late Franciscan's local and enduring veneration.