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Lucy Filippini
18th-century Roman Catholic saint
Lucy Filippini (Italian: Santa Lucia Filippini; 13 January 1672 – 25 March 1732) is venerated as a Catholicsaint.
With the assistance of Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo, Rose Venerini founded schools for young women, especially the poor, in Viterbo. The cardinal's relative Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo invited Venerini to establish schools in his diocese of Montefiascone.
Sister Marchione gave a brief but informative history of the origins of The Religious Teachers Filipinni.
When Venerini had to return to Viterbo to look after the establishments there, Marcantonio entrusted the schools to Lucy Filippini. She then founded the Institute of the Maestre Pie to staff the schools and continue her work.
They are known as the "Filippini Sisters".
Life
Lucy Filippini was born on 13 January 1672 in Corneto-Tarquinia. She was the fifth and youngest child of Filippo Filippini and Maddalena Picchi.[1] She had not yet reached her first birthday when her mother died and was buried in the Church of San Marco.
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