Elizabeth Picenardi
Blessed of Mantua, Italy
Feast: 19 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Mantua, Blessed Elizabeth Picenardi, virgin, who, having taken the habit of the Order of Servants of Mary, led in her father's house a life consecrated to God, receiving Holy Communion frequently and applying herself diligently to the Liturgy of the Hours and to meditation on the Scriptures, deeply devoted to the Virgin Mary.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 19 February as a Servite virgin who lived a consecrated life of prayer in her father's house at Mantua.
The cause
Elizabeth Picenardi has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Servites: Blessed Elizabeth Picenardi.
- Roman Martyrology, 19 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q22833456 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Elisabetta Picenardi (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.