VARANO, BATTISTA da, beata. - Mystic of the Order of St. Clare, born Camilla, in Camerino on 9 April 1458 to Giulio Cesare, lord of that city, died there on 31 May 1524 or 1527.

Having heard the blessed Marco da Montegallo preach (1468), she grew attached to meditation on the Passion of Jesus and strove to live it in a spirit of penance. Having overcome her parents' opposition, on 14 November 1481 she entered the Poor Clares of Urbino; in 1484 she founded a monastery in her native city and then another in Fermo. Then, in Camerino, she was elected abbess. She vigorously endured infirmities, temptations, threats and other evils, under the guidance of the blessed Pietro da Molliano and Marco da Montegallo. She always forgave, and prayed for the wicked murderers of her father and of two of her brothers, slaughtered in a revolt raised by Cesare Borgia (1502). She rests in the church of the Poor Clares of Camerino. Her cult was approved by Gregory XVI on 7 April 1843.

She had a complete humanistic education and left, among other works, the following writings: Spiritual Autobiography (1491); Treatise on the Mental Sorrows of Jesus Christ Our Lord in His Passion (Naples 1493, Milan 1515, attributed in 1593 to Fr. Scupoli [v.]); Account of the Death of the Blessed Pietro da Molliano (1760); Instructions to Her Disciple Fr. Antonio Spagna; Exhortation Which She Received from the Lord While Still in the World After Her Firm Resolution to Embrace the Religious Life; The Spiritual Life (republished with an introduction by M. Sticco, Milan 1944); poems; letters.

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BIBL.: works: M. Santoni, Opere spirit. della b. B. V. dei signori di Camerino... insieme riunite e corrette sopra gli antichi codici a penna e a stampa, Camerino 1894. Biographies: P. V. da Porto S. Giorgio, Vita della b. V., principessa di Camerino... aggiunte le operette spirit. della medesima, Bologna 1874; A. M. Marini, Vita della b. B. V., Camerino 1882; Leone da Clary, C. A. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a.

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