Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi: the making of a Counter-Reformation Saint
Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607) spent most of her life as an enclosed nun in the Carmelite monastery of S. Maria degli Angeli in Florence. There she claimed to experience a remarkable range and number of ecstasies and visions; she received the stigmata, was mystically married to Christ, a...