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Saint — Bl. Anna Maria Taigi

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Bl. Anna Maria Taigi
May 29, 1769 AD, Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany — June 9, 1837 AD, Rome, Papal States
Italian Trinitarian tertiary; Roman housewife-mystic; visionary
Basilica of San Crisogono, Rome, Italy — her shrine, Italy
Feast
June 9
Canonized
Beatified May 30, 1920 by Pope Benedict XV
Life

Anna Maria (baptismal name Anna Maria Giannetti) was born on May 29, 1769 at Siena. In 1789, at the age of 20, Anna Maria married Domenico Taigi — a Roman servant at the Chigi Palace. The marriage produced seven children.

In 1790, Anna Maria underwent the mystical conversion — undertaking the Trinitarian Third Order (Tertiary) vows and the 47-year mystical-visionary life while simultaneously fulfilling her role as Roman housewife and mother.

Anna Maria became famous during her lifetime for the mystical-visionary phenomena — most famously the appearance of a mystical sun hovering before her — in which she reportedly could see images of the persons, events, and places throughout the world in real time and in the future. The Taigi 'mystical sun' became the 19th-century Catholic visionary-mystical tradition.

Anna Maria received multiple visits from Popes Pius VII and Leo XII seeking her spiritual counsel. She famously prophesied historical events including the Napoleonic capture of Rome (1809), the 1830 revolutions, and other European political events.

She died at Rome on June 9, 1837 at the age of 68.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The 'mystical sun' visionary tradition

    Bl. Anna Maria Taigi's 47-year visionary phenomenon of the 'mystical sun' — in which she reportedly could see images of the persons, events, and places throughout the world in real time and in the future — established the 19th-century Catholic visionary-mystical tradition.

  • The housewife-mystic tradition

    Anna Maria Taigi's status as a Roman housewife and mother of seven children simultaneously undertaking the systematic mystical-visionary life — established the Catholic married-lay-mystic tradition that would influence the 19th and 20th-century Catholic housewife-mystical traditions.

Relics
  • Body
    Relics of Bl. Anna Maria Taigi
    Basilica of San Crisogono, Rome, Italy — shrine

    Her relics rest at the Basilica of San Crisogono in Trastevere in Rome.

Iconography
  • Anna Maria Taigi with the mystical sun

    The late-18th and mid-19th-century Roman housewife-mystic in vision of the mystical sun hovering before her — the iconography of Catholic 19th-century visionary-mystical tradition.

Patronages
Catholic married mothers and housewivesCatholic visionary-mystical traditionRome and the Roman Catholic tradition
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