Veronica Giulinani werd geboren in Mercatello sul Metauro,
in het hertogdom Urbino, bij welstellende ouders.
Ze was de jongste van negen meisjes...
van wie er drie het klooster in gingen.
Haar beide zussen in Mercatello zelf...
waar dat armeklarenklooster...
nog steeds bestaat.
"It is told that at the age of three years...
Giuliani supposedly began to show great compassion for the poor. She would set apart a portion of her food for them, and even part with her clothes when she met a poor child scantily clad [schaars gekleed].
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Her mother died when Ursula was seven years of age.
When others did not readily join in her religious practices, she was inclined to be dictatorial. At the age of 16, she experienced a vision which corrected this imperfection of character: she saw her own heart as a 'heart of steel'.
In her writings she confesses, that she took a certain pleasure in the more stately [statige, voorname] circumstances which her family adopted when her father was appointed superintendent of finance at Piacenza [in de late middeleeuwen een van de rijkste steden van Europa].
When Giuliani came of age, her father believed she should marry, and so he desired her to take part in the social activities of the young people. But she pleaded so earnestly with her father that, after much resistance, he finally permitted her...
to choose her own state in life."
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