{"id":11155,"date":"2025-11-06T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuovo.montonein.it\/personaggi-illustri\/serafina-brunelli\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:15:38","slug":"serafina-brunelli","status":"publish","type":"personaggi-illustri","link":"https:\/\/nuovo.montonein.it\/en\/illustrious-people\/serafina-brunelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Serafina Brunelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11155\" class=\"elementor elementor-11155 elementor-8623\" data-elementor-post-type=\"personaggi-illustri\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0fd0739 elementor-section-full_width qodef-elementor-content-grid elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0fd0739\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d428aa8\" data-id=\"d428aa8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8759e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8759e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tElisabetta, daughter of Angelo Brunelli and of his wife Giulia, was born in Fratta (now Umbertide, Perugia) the 9th of July 1659.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fde960 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0fde960\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShe lost her mother when she was 16 and then fell deeply in love with a young man; he even asked her hand in marriage, but the father and the brother did not want her to marry him, so Elizabeth was entrusted as a pupil, for her safety, to the cloister of St. Caterina da Montone, to which he was accompanied in 1676. Even if she desired to become a nun, probably on the rebound, she did not give up suitors, so much so that she was seen talking with a young man once. Elisabetta was to be expelled from the cloister, but she begged pardon and all was resolved with a public penance in the refectory. Nevertheless, she had a correspondence with another young man and a suitor even did a serenade under the windows of the cloister. To reach her desire to be courted, Elisabetta even prayed the Virgin Mary, but one day she felt an inner answer saying: \u201cHow do you presume to receive God\u2019s graces if you offend Him with your vanity and loves?     \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2bb0ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2bb0ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerafina was protagonist of extraordinary mystical phenomena such as ecstasy, transverberazione (a mystical experience in which a person is pierced by an angel or by Christ himself with an arrow or a lance), visions and levitation. She was friend and correspondent of Santa Veronica Giuliani, abbess of Capuchin sisters of Citt\u00e0 di Castello.\nShe also had an extraordinary talent for prophecy. She left an enormous amount of writings, a true spiritual diary, with allegorical and prophetic visions, only part of which have become true so far; this corpus is still mostly unpublished and the manuscripts are scattered in private and ecclesiastical archives.<br\/>Two of her most shocking prophecies were about the fall of the French monarchy and about the arrival of a great emperor that would have shaken the world.      \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9310fa5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9310fa5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>She was also a poetess and a sort of \u201cspiritual mother\u201d for all those who have approached her during her life and for those who have approached her writings during the centuries.<br\/>He died on October 2nd, 1729 and her body was buried with all honours and it was almost hidden in the Church of San Fedele of Montone, because of the great flow of people that asked for relics.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1b337c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c1b337c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>After her death, the sisters and many of her devotees gathered Serafina\u2019s statements and writings in order to use them for a process of beatification.<br\/>In 1828, there was an attempted to make a canonical recognition of the relics of the \u201cServant of God\u201d, but her body was not found in its original burial: perhaps, it had been stolen or hidden during the French invasion. In 1844, the Bishop<strong> <em>Giovanni Muzi<\/em><\/strong> officially included Serafina in the list of the \u201cServants of God\u201d of the diocese of Citt\u00e0 di Castello.<br\/>The process of beatification could not be continued due to the events of the cloister, which was suppressed several times during the centuries, up to its extinction in 1953. This extraordinary personality has only recently attracted attention again and some of her writings have been finally published. The \u201cservant of God\u201d Serafina Brunelli is commemorated on the 2nd of October, the day of her birth in Heaven.     <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elisabetta, daughter of Angelo Brunelli and of his wife Giulia, was born in Fratta (now Umbertide, Perugia) the 9th of July 1659.She lost her mother when she was 16 and then fell deeply in love with a young man; he even asked her hand in marriage, but the father and the brother did not want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-11155","personaggi-illustri","type-personaggi-illustri","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Serafina Brunelli - MontoneIn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Serafina Brunelli - MontoneIn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elisabetta, daughter of Angelo Brunelli and of his wife Giulia, was born in Fratta (now Umbertide, Perugia) the 9th of July 1659.She lost her mother when she was 16 and then fell deeply in love with a young man; 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