Benvenuta Bojani (4 May 1254 - 30 October 1292) was an
Italian religious sister of the Third Order of Saint Dominic.[1] Bojani dedicated her life to strict austerities as an act of repentance and devotion to God and was said to have had visions of angels and demons.[2]
The confirmation of the late Bojani's popular devotion allowed for Pope Clement XIV to approve her beatification in 1763.
Life
Benvenuta Bojani was born in the
baptized in her name for it meant 'welcome' due to her father's words at her birth.[3]
Bojani refused to participate in childhood games that dabbled in worldliness or vainness for she remained a pious child devoted to the service of God rather than to the secular world.[1] But one vain older sister tried and failed to teach her to dress in rich clothing and indulge in pleasures that her sister refused to do.[2] In 1266 she began to wear a hair net and a rope girdle as signs of austerities she began to undertake but as she grew the girdle began to cut into her and had to be removed. The girdle could not be removed because it was far too embedded for it to be untied but after turning to God the rope fell to her feet.[1][3]
In her adolescence she became a member of the
Infant Jesus and blessed all priests present. This moment of apparitions was when she was healed of her ailment.[2]
Beatification
Bojani died on 30 October 1292 and was interred in the church of Saint Dominic in her hometown.[3] Her beatification received approval from Pope Clement XIV - on 6 February 1763.
