Hyacintha Mariscotti

Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti, T.O.R., or Hyacintha of Mariscotti (Italian: Giacinta di Mariscotti) was a Italian nun of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. She was born in 1585 of a noble family at Vignanello, in the Province of Viterbo, and died 30 January 1640 in Viterbo. Her feast is 30 January; in Rome, 6 February (Diarium Romanum). Her parents were Marcantonio 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 17 could change, nor her education at the Monastery of St. Bernardine at Viterbo, a religious community of Franciscan tertiary...