Giovanna_Scopelli
Giovanna Scopelli (1428 – 9 July 1491) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Reggio Emilia who was a religious from the Carmelites and established her own convent as its first prioress.[1] Scopelli was forbidden to enter the third order branch of that order during her adolescence and waited until her parents died to embrace the religious life.[2]
Scopelli was beatified on 24 August 1771 under Pope Clement XIV when the latter approved her local 'cultus' – otherwise known as popular devotion – and thus ratified her beatification. She was titled before this as a Servant of God in 1500 when the canonization cause commenced under Pope Alexander VI.[3]