Blessed Lucy of Narni (15th November)

Lucy Broccadelli was born in Narni.  She decided upon a religious life while she was still a child, and although she agreed under pressure to marry, she made her husband agree that the marriage should remian unconsumated.  When her marriage broke down, she became a Dominican tertiary at Viterbo and it was there that she received the stigmata in 1496.  This led to an investiation by the Inquisition, and she was finally vindicated in 1499 by Pope Alexander VI, who took advice on the matter from the Blessed Colomba of Rieti.

Later in 1499, Duke Ercole I d' Este installed Lucy at a new convent dedicated to St Catherine of Siena, which he built at Ferara.  However, when Ercole died in 1505, she was deposed from her postion as Prioress and spent the remaining years until her death in 1544 in obscurity.

Cardinal Giuseppe Sacripante began the campaign for her beatification in 1710, and translated part of her relics to Narni.   Her cult was confirmed for Narni and Viterbo.

The rest of her relics were transported from Ferrara to Narni in 1935.