Lambertini, Imelda, Blessed (LAMBERTINI, IMELDA, BEATA) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VII, p. 517

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

LAMBERTINI, IMELDA, blessed. — Dominican, born in Bologna around 1321–22, died there on 12 May 1333.

A member of the noble Lambertini family, at the age of ten she entered the monastery of S. M. Maddalena di Valdipietra, outside the city walls. There the well-known Eucharistic miracle took place: it is related, in fact, that the young religious was persistently denied the Eucharist on account of her tender age; but the Lord saw to it that she received Communion through a miraculous Host. Then, having withdrawn to give thanks, she was found lifeless. The information reported above derives from a tenuous tradition.

Under the patronage of b. L., in May 1891, the Confraternity of Good First Communion and Perseverance arose at Prouille, in the diocese of Carcassonne. The blessed is also patroness of the Beniamine of the Italian Catholic Action for Young Women and titular of a Congregation (cf. DOMENICANE DELLA B. IMELDA).

Article illustration — Her cult was confirmed by Leo XII on 20 Dec.
1826, and on 12 January 1921 the cause for her canonization was resumed. Feast on 13 May.
(Alinari photograph) LAMBERTI, FAMIGLIA – Statue of St. Mark the Evangelist, work of Niccolò L. – Florence, Cathedral.

BIBL.: G. Melloni, Atti o memorie degli uomini illustri in santità, nati o morti in Bologna, II, II, Bologna 1789, pp. 72–109 and 321–33 (fundamental). Less critical is the Italian biography by C. di Sassoferrato, published in the Latin translation by G. B. Lambertini at Antwerp in 1625, which was included in the Acta SS. Maii, III, Antwerp 1680, p. 183 ff.; M. Canal, Poniendo fin a una polémica - La b. I. L., religiosa dominica, Madrid 1927; T. Alfonsi, La b. I. L. domenicana, Bologna 1927 (the most complete and scholarly); id., Opinioni errate riguardo alla b. I. L., Pistoia 1936. Abele Redigonda.

(courtesy of mani, A. P. Frutai)
LAMBERT DE LA MOTTE, PIERRE - Ritratto.