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Seraphina Sforza. Sveva da Montefeltro (1434 – 8 September 1478) was an Italian beatified nun and noblewoman of the House of Montefeltro. She is venerated by the Catholic Church for her life of devotion despite the hardships she encountered.
In 1475 Seraphina was elected abbess of the monastery at Pesaro. Her body, exhumed some years after her death, was found incorrupt, and is preserved in the cathedral at Pesaro . She was beatified by Benedict XIV in 1754, and her feast is kept on 9 September throughout the Franciscan Order .
Seraphina Sforza, BLESSED, b. at Urbino about 1434; d. at Pesaro, September 8, 1478. Her parents were Guido Antonio of Montefeltro, Count of Urbino, and Cattarina Colonna. She was brought up at Rome by her maternal uncle, Martin V. In 1448 Seraphina married Alexander Sforza, Lord of Pesaro.
Blessed Seraphina Sforza lived eighteen years more in the convent, and promoted its temporal and spiritual welfare, especially during the last three years when she was abbess. On the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, September 8, 1478, Blessed Seraphina Sforza went to receive her heavenly crown.
SERAPHINA SFORZA, BL. Abbess; b. Sueva Montefeltro, Urbino, Italy, 1434;d. Pesaro, Sept. 8, 1478. After being orphaned quite young, she was reared in Rome by her uncle, Prince Colonna. She married Alexander Sforza, Duke of Pesaro, at 16.
Of noble stock and brought up in her uncle’s Roman household after being orphaned, Seraphina seems to have had an attraction to religious life from a young age. Nevertheless, she consented to an arranged marriage with the widowed Prince Alexander Sforza.
Italian Catholic saint. Born in Urbino, Italy, in 1434; died in 1478; daughter of Guido Sforza, count of Montefeltro, and Catherine Colonna (d. around 1440); married Allesandro Sforza (1409–1473), lord of Pesaro and Cottignola, in 1448; entered Franciscan order around 1457.
