Dates

• Existence: 1769 May 29 - 1837 June 9

Biographical note

Born at Siena, daughter of a druggist named Giannetti, whose business failed, she was brought to Rome and worked for a time as a domestic servant. In 1790, she married Dominic Taigi, a butler of the Chigi family in Rome, and they had seven children. Endowed with the gift of prophecy, she read thoughts and described distant events. Her home became the rendezvous of cardinals and other dignitaries who sought her counsel. Beatified in 1920.

(paraphrased from The Book of Saints : A Dictionary of Persons Canonized or Beatified by the Catholic Church. 5th edition. New York: Crowell, 1966.)

Alternate names

Anne Mary Taigi, Anna Maria Giannetti Taigi, Anna-Maria Taïgi