NEGRONI, Veronica, Blessed. - Augustinian mystic, b. at Binasco (Milan) in 1445, d. 13 Jan. 1497 in the convent of St. Martha in Milan, where she had entered at the age of 22 and where she spent her whole life.

Humble and simple from childhood, she later became a begging nun and subjected herself to harsh privations and to the hairshirt, without regard for her painful state of health. She had very frequent visions: following one of them she went to Rome to Pope Alexander VI, who received her kindly. She had ecstasies, theological revelations, the gift of penetrating the thoughts of others and of prophecy. Leo X granted her cult to the monastery of St. Martha on 15 Dec. 1517. Feast on 13 Jan.

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BIBL.: her life was written by: the Dominican Isidoro Isolani, Milan 1518, Italian trans. by A. Gallarato, Brescia 1581, republished in Acta SS. Ianuarii, Antwerp 1643, pp. 887-929; Cardinal F. Borromeo, in Philagias, II, Milan 1623, ed. Yarissima, summary in A. Saba, Federico Borromeo e i mistici del suo tempo..., Florence 1933, pp. 8-11; anonymous, Vita e visioni della b. V. monaca del monastero di S. Marta di Milano, Milan 1685 and 1755; P. Moiraghi, La b. V. da Binasco, Pavia 1897.

Renata Orasi Ausenda

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