Elisabetta Vendramini

Elisabetta Vendramini (9 April 1790 – 2 April 1860) was an Italian Franciscan tertiary who established the Elizabethan Sisters in 1830 in Padua. Her beatification was celebrated on 4 November 1990.

Life Elisabetta Vendramini was born on 9 April 1790 in Vicenza. because she felt a clear and concise call to the religious life so that she could devote herself to the needs of the poor. She began to take care of children in her hometown and later joined the staff of a Capuchin orphanage in 1820. Theologians collected her writings and approved them as being in line with the faith in a decree of 2 April 1964. The second process opened on 8 June 1963 to continue the work of the first process and closed on 30 November 1964. The final one opened on 12 January 1965 and closed sometime later.

The Positio was submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1986 and was sent to a session of historians in order for the latter group to assess whether or not the cause had historical obstacles that would prevent it from proceeding. The team of historians approved the cause on 10 March 1987. On 11 March 1988 the C.C.S. validated the previous three processes and assigned theologians to discuss the cause to which the latter voiced approval to the contents of the Positio on 28 June 1988. The C.C.S. themselves also approved it on 7 February 1989 which would allow them to pass on their findings to the pope for his own approval.

She was proclaimed to be Venerable – on 18 February 1989 – after Pope John Paul II approved the fact that the late religious had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue in which she was said to have exemplified the cardinal virtues and the theological virtues.

The miracle required for her beatification was investigated in the Italian diocese of its origin from May 1956 until July 1956. The miracle in question involved the perfect and rapid cure of Sergia De Carlo – from Vendramini's own order – in December 1936 in Padua who was suffering from a combination of tuberculosis and Pott's Disease. It received the validation of the C.C.S. on 21 April 1989 and received the approval of the medical board on 15 November 1989. The consulting theologians also voiced their approval to the miracle on 23 March 1990 while the C.C.S. also voiced approval on 19 June 1990. The pope voiced his approval on 10 July 1990 and beatified her on 4 November 1990. The postulator assigned to the cause is Giovangiuseppe Califano.