Elisabetta Maria Satellico
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Venice, Republic of Venice
Ostra Vetere, Ancona, Papal States
Elisabetta Maria Satellico | |
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| Religious | |
| Born | 31 December 1706 Venice, Republic of Venice |
| Died | 8 November 1745 (aged 38) Ostra Vetere, Ancona, Papal States |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 10 October 1993, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 8 November |
| Attributes | Poor Clare habit |
Elisabetta Maria Satellico (31 December 1706 – 8 November 1745) – in religious Maria Crocifissa – was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Poor Clares who served as her convent's abbess.[1][2]
Elisabetta Maria Satellico was born in the Republic of Venice on 31 December 1706 to Piero Satellico and Lucia Mander. Satellico – and her parents as well – lived in the home of her priest maternal uncle who instilled in her a moral and cultural education.[3][4]
Satellico was often frail during her childhood but made up for her poor health in her musical and singing abilities. She cultivated a deep religious faith as a child and was determined to enter the religious life at the earliest time possible as part of the Capuchin Poor Clares and she often said: "I want to become a nun and if I succeed I want to become a saint".[1][4] She was a student at the Poor Clare convent at Ostra Vetere where she used the organ and sang songs.
The order received her into their ranks in Senigallia in 1720.[1][3] She was later elected as the abbess of her convent in 1742. Due to her age the Bishop of Senigallia did not grant her permission to be vested in the habit though the new bishop Bartolomeo Castelli allowed her to do so on 13 May 1725; this enabled her to commence her novitiate until her profession which she made on 19 May 1726 in the name of "Maria Crocifissa" into the hands of the vicar general of the diocese.[2][3] Her spiritual directors were Angelo Sandreani and Giovanni Battista Scaramelli (her first biographer).
Satellico died of tuberculosis on 8 November 1745 and she was buried at the Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Ostra Vetere.[1][2]
