Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti or Hyacintha of Mariscotti ((Italian) Giacinta Marescotti or Giacinta Mariscotti) was a religious of the Third Order of St. Francis and foundress of the Sacconi (also known as the Oblates of Mary, a Traditionalist Catholic order of nuns). She was born in 1585 of a noble family at Vignanello, near Viterbo in Italy, and died 30 January 1640 at Viterbo. Her feast is 30 January; in Rome, 6 February (Diarium Romanum).
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Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti or Hyacintha of Mariscotti ((Italian) Giacinta Marescotti or Giacinta Mariscotti) was a religious of the Third Order of St. Francis and foundress of the Sacconi (also known as the Oblates of Mary, a Traditionalist Catholic order of nuns). She was born in 1585 of a noble family at Vignanello, near Viterbo in Italy, and died 30 January 1640 at Viterbo. Her feast is 30 January; in Rome, 6 February (Diarium Romanum).
Her parents were Marc' Antonio Mariscotti (Marius Scotus) and Ottavia Orsini. At baptism she received the name Clarice and in early youth was remarkable for piety, but, as she grew older, she became frivolous, which not even the almost miraculous saving of her life at the age of seventeen could change, nor her education at the Convent of St. Bernardine at Viterbo, where an older sister had taken the veil.
At the age of twenty she set her heart upon marriage with the Marquess Cassizucchi, but was passed by in favour of a younger sister. Disappointed,...
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