Enciclopedia Cattolica

BARONE, VERONICA

Volume II · p. 526 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

BARONE, Veronica. – Mystic, born at Vizzini (Catania) on 16 Dec. 1856, died there in a reputation for holiness on 4 Jan. 1878.

At baptism she was given the name Febronia. In childhood she was miraculously cured of a malignant fever after an apparition of St Veronica Giuliani.

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Baroncelli, Niccolò – Crucifixion – Ferrara, cathedral.

Her brief life was marked by many ecstasies and charisms. On 9 July 1871 she enrolled in the Third Order of St Francis, taking the name Veronica and thereafter living as a religious in her own home according to Sicilian custom. Most painful temptations, illnesses and sufferings matched the thirst for affliction that drove her to impose harsh penances upon herself.

Bibl.: Pio La Scala da Mazzarino, *Stor V. B., l'estatica capuccina*, 4th ed., Catania 1913. Umile Bonzi da Genova