Elisabetta Canori Mora

Elisabetta Canori Mora (21 November 1774 – 5 February 1825) was an Italian member of the Third Order of the Most Holy Trinity. Mora married an abrasive husband who remained unfaithful and abusive to her but at the time of her death secured his repentance, and he became a priest. Mora had a range of spiritual experiences in which she heard the voice of God and visions of the Madonna and other saints while also experiencing religious ecstasies during her life.

Her beatification cause opened in 1874 under Pope Pius IX and in 1928 was named Venerable under Pope Pius XI. The beatification for Mora was celebrated in Saint Peter's Square under Pope John Paul II in 1994.

Life Elisabetta Canori Mora was born in Rome on 21 November 1774 to the aristocrats Tommaso Canori and Teresa Primoli as one of twelve children, six of whom died as infants. Her spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 16 December 1914. Pope Pius XI later confirmed her heroic virtue and named her venerable on 26 February 1928. The miracle needed for her to be beatified received the papal approval of Pope John Paul II On 6 July 1993. Pope John Paul beatified her on 24 April 1994 at Saint Peter's Square. The postulator for this cause is the Trinitarian priest Javier Carnerero Peñalver.