CEVOLI, FLORIDA, venerabile. - Capuchin nun of the monastery of Città di Castello, born in Pisa to Counts Curzio and Laura C. on 11 November 1685, died on 12 June 1767. She entered the monastery on 8 June 1703, was a disciple, confidante and vicar of St. Veronica Giuliani (v.), whose virtues she emulated; abbess from 1727, with some interruptions, until her death. Asked for counsel, she kept up a copious correspondence with people both great and humble. She left precious testimonies concerning her interior life. On 1 June 1838 Gregory XVI introduced her cause of beatification; on 19 June 1910 Pius X declared the heroicity of her virtue.

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BIBL.: Analecta Ord. Min. Capuccinorum, 13 (1897), pp. 135-144 (list of her writings). F. Gemelli, Compendio della vita, virtù, doni e prodigi di suor F. C., Rome 1838-40; G. Sainati, Vita della ven. F. C., Monza 1873; S. Rituum Congregatio, Ven. servae Dei sor. Floridae C. nova positio super virtutibus, Rome 1907; Novissima positio super virtutibus, ibid. 1909; P. Constant, La vén. Floride C., in La légende dorée des Capucins, Paris 1932, pp. 569-84; M. Capozzi, Suor F. dei conti C., in confidente di s. Veronica Giuliani, Milan 1936.

Felice da Mareto

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