Domenica del Paradiso

Domenica Narducci, OP (religious name Domenica of Paradise; 3 September 1473 – 1553) was an Italian Dominican nun.

Biography Narducci was born on 3 September 1473 in Bandino area in Florence. She was the daughter of Tommaso di Jacopo Narducci, a farmer and groundskeeper who worked in the gardens of Chiesa di Santa Brigida al Paradiso.

At the new convent, she became known for her extreme piety and assisted the Medici family in spiritual matters. Advocate of her own reforms for the Second order of the Dominicans, she was an outspoken critic of the first order who supported the controversial Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498).