ELETTA OF JESUS. - Discalced Carmelite, in the world Caterina Tramazzoli, b. at Terni on 28 Jan. 1605, d. at Prague on 11 Jan. 1663.

She entered the convent of the Discalced Carmelites of Terni on 3 June 1626, and made her profession there on 17 June 1627, first called Sister B. of St. John and later E. of J. In 1629 she was sent, together with other sisters, among them the venerable Maria Paola of Jesus (Centurioni), to the foundation of a new monastery of Discalced Carmelites at Vienna (Austria), of which she was later elected prioress (1638-41); then, in 1643, to the foundation at Graz (Styria), where she was again made prioress (1644), and from there she went to the foundation at Prague (Bohemia), where she arrived on 10 Dec. 1656; she died there in the reputation of sanctity, and her incorrupt body is preserved in the choir of that monastery.

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BIBL.: Giov. Batt. di S. Giuseppe, Memorie per la vita della terza di D. suor M. E. di G., Terni 1834; H. Dichul, Leben der Gotteligen M. Electa von Jesus, Praga 1818, 2nd ed. ibid. 1897; F. Blatak, Leben der im Rufe der Heiligheit verstorbenen Mutter M. Electa von Jesus, ibid. 1916.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa

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