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Museo della Santa

Where Via Tagliapietre, 21, Bologna

In the church of Corpus Christi and the adjacent monastery develops the museum documenting the figure of St. Catherine de Vigri (1413-1463), first lady companion of Marguerite d'Este, then part of the Poor Clares of Corpus Domini in Ferrara and finally first abbess of the monastery of the Poor Clares in Bologna, canonized in 1712. aisle on the left of the path begins with the chapel where the body of the saint is venerated incorrupt and sat on a golden throne. Here are exposed the 'Madonna del Pomo' and the 'Baby Jesus' paintings by Catherine herself; manuscripts of his works, 'Breviary' and 'The Seven Spiritual Weapons', and many votive shrines. Among the relics of the saint clarissa, amateur painter besides music, the famous figure "violet", fiddle precious testimony of the fifteenth century. In the adjoining room are kept small panels painted by Giulio Morina in 1594; the bed of the Holy, a few chairs, a wooden crucifix of the XV century and a mantle embroidered donated by a noble family in Bologna.

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