Anna Maria Taigi

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Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (29 May 1769 – 9 June 1837) – born Anna Maria Giannetti – was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member from the Secular Trinitarians. Taigi married Domenico Taigi who was a brash and impulsive individual though devoted to his wife who experienced a series of ecstasies during her life and was known to have heard the voices of God and Jesus Christ on several occasions. Taigi became a Secular Trinitarian after experiencing a sudden religious conversion in winter 1790 while at Saint Peter’s Basilica and came into contact with a range of cardinals and luminaries which included Saint Vincenzo Strambi and Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget amongst others.

The beatification process opened in 1863 under Pope Pius IX after she was titled as a Servant of God and Pope Benedict XV later beatified her in mid-1920.

Anna Maria Giannetti was born in Siena on 29 May 1769 as an only child to Luigi Giannetti and Maria Masi. She was baptized on 30 May 1769 in her local parish church in the names of “Anna Maria Gesualda Antonia Giannetti”.

Her father served as a pharmacist in a small store he ran in Siena but lost his fortune and was obliged to seek work elsewhere in a move that saw Giannetti move to Rome with her parents in 1774; Luigi found a job as a household servant in Rome. It was in Rome that she attended a school that the Filippini Sisters managed and was there from 1774 until 1776.[1][3] Once she completed her education she worked in several occupations to provide for her parents which included that of being a maid. While living in Rome she was often nicknamed as “Annette”. She received her Confirmation in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in 1780 and her First Communion in her parish church of San Francesco di Paola a little while later in 1782.