Blessed Osanna of Mantua

Blessed Osanna (1449-1505) is reported to have had a vision of angels, paradise, and the Trinity at age five. She was born in Mantua, Italy, and became a Dominican tertiary at age 17.  She waited 37 years to complete her vows so she could care for her brothers and sisters after the death of her parents. She was a mystic who would fall into ecstasies whenever she spoke of God, and who saw images of Christ bearing his cross. She had the pain of the stigmata along with red marks, but no bleeding. A record of her spiritual conversations with Girolamo de Monte Oliveto has survived.

Osanna died in 1505 of natural causes. Her Feast Day is June 20.