Reliquary Box of Beata Maria Vittoria with ex-Indumentis.

Reliquary Box of Beata Maria Vittoria with ex-Indumentis.

( María Victoria de Fornari Strata ( Genova 1562-15 de diciembre de 1617 )

Size: 3 cm diameter x 2 cm H

STRINGS AND SEALS INTACT

Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata (1562 – 15 December 1617) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Order of the Annunciation – or Blue Nuns. Fornari was married for just under a decade and decided not to find another spouse after having a vision of the Madonna who instructed her to lead a chaste life of motherhood. The widow decided to found an order not long after this based on the Carmelite charism.

The beatification cause started under Pope Benedict XIV on 10 September 1746 and the late religious was titled as a Servant of God while Pope Clement XIII confirmed her heroic virtue and named her as Venerable on 1 April 1759. Pope Leo XII later approved two miracles attributed to her intercession on 1 April 1828 and later beatified her in Saint Peter's Basilica on 21 September 1828.