Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Order of the Annunciation – or Blue Nuns. Fornari was married for just under a decade and decided not to find another spouse after having a vision of the Madonna who instructed her to lead a chaste life of motherhood. The widow decided to found an order not long after this, based on the Carmelite charism.

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• Order of the Annunciation

1562

15 December 1617 (aged 55)

Beatified

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