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Saint — Bl. Osanna Andreasi of Mantua

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Bl. Osanna Andreasi of Mantua
January 17, 1449 AD, Mantua, Marquisate of Mantua (noble Andreasi family) — June 18, 1505 AD, Mantua
Dominican Tertiary; Mantuan mystic-court saint of the Gonzaga dynasty
Cathedral of Mantua (Duomo di Mantova), Italy — her shrine; Mantuan Catholic pilgrim destination, Italy
Feast
June 18
Canonized
Beatified 1515 by Pope Leo X
Life

Osanna Andreasi was born on January 17, 1449 at Mantua to the noble Mantuan Andreasi family — close to the ruling Gonzaga dynasty of the Marquisate of Mantua.

From early childhood Osanna displayed mystical-vocation signs. She received the Dominican Third Order (Tertiary) habit at the age of 14 (1463) — continuing to live at the family palace as a lay-Tertiary.

Osanna became the personal spiritual director of the Gonzaga ruling family — Isabella d'Este (Marchioness of Mantua from 1490, one of the principal Renaissance women intellectuals) and Francesco II Gonzaga received direct spiritual counsel from Osanna.

Osanna received the stigmata (invisible stigmata became visible at her death) and experienced the mystical-ecstatic phenomena documented in her Vita.

She died at Mantua on June 18, 1505 at the age of 56.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The Gonzaga-Renaissance mystic-court tradition

    Bl. Osanna Andreasi's personal spiritual direction of the Gonzaga ruling family of Mantua — including Isabella d'Este and Francesco II Gonzaga — establishes the Renaissance-Catholic court-mystic tradition of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Relics
  • Body
    Relics of Bl. Osanna Andreasi
    Cathedral of Mantua (Duomo di Mantova), Italy — her shrine

    Her relics rest at the Cathedral of Mantua — in the side chapel — in continuous Catholic liturgical use.

Iconography
  • Osanna with the stigmata

    The late-15th-century Mantuan Dominican-Tertiary in Dominican-Tertiary habit displaying the stigmata on her hands and feet — the iconography of Catholic Renaissance-court mystical tradition.

Patronages
Mantua and the Mantuan Catholic traditionCatholic Gonzaga-dynasty Catholic royal-mystical tradition (the personal mystic of the Gonzaga marquises of Mantua)Order of Preachers (Dominican Tertiary)
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