Model and Patroness of a Family, a Wife, a Mother, and a Mystic.
I have a strong devotion to Bl. Anna Maria Taigi. She has blessed our family with one major miracle and a number of “tiny” ones. She is truly an example of a devoted wife, a loving mother, and an accurate and amazing mystic. I’m excited to announce, too, that more information on her canonization is coming soon!
Here’s the official website for Bl. Anna Maria Taigi run by the Vice Postulator for her cause (Fr. Michael Pintacura).
Read some of her many miracles here.
By the way, the married name of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi is pronounced “Tah ee gee”. Her maiden name Giannetti is pronounced “Gee ah net ee”.
Here’s a picture of her body in Rome. Her story is below.
Blessed Anna Maria Taigi was born in Siena on May 29, 1769 and baptized the following day. Because of financial difficulties, her parents, Louis Giannetti and Mary Masi, moved to Rome when Anna Maria was six years old.
In the Eternal City, Anna Maria attended the school conducted by the Filippini Sisters for two years. Following her schooling, she worked at various occupations, even that of a maid, to bring financial assistance to her parents.
When still a young girl, she married Dominic Taigi, a pious young man but of difficult and rather coarse character. Disregarding these defects, Anna Maria was more concerned with his virtue, and for the forty-nine years of their married life she conducted herself with the greatest affability and delicacy, finding ample opportunity to exercise continually the virtues of patience and charity.
Their marriage was characterized by the highest Christian principles.
Understanding the profound social and moral values of the Christian marriage and considering it, above all, as one of the highest missions from Heaven, Blessed Anna Maria transformed her home into a real sanctuary in which God had the first place. Docile to her husband in every way, she avoided anything which might irritate him and thus disturb the family peace. Serious and hardworking, she saw to it that nothing was lacking to her family and, in so far as one in her impoverished circumstances could, she was generous to the poor.
She bore seven children, three of whom died in childhood. Two boys and two girls grew to maturity and she provided them with the most accurate and complete religious and secular education.
Having sought to correspond to grace from her childhood, she now began to live a life of intense spirituality. She had one desire only: to love God and to serve Him in everything; she had only one preoccupation: to avoid the least shadow of the slightest voluntary imperfection. She was greatly devoted to the Holy Eucharist, to the Most Holy Trinity, to the Infant Jesus, to the Sacred Passion of Our Lord, and ever had the tenderest devotion to Our Lady.
Anna Maria Taigi is one of the great mystics of the last century. Yet, she achieved her sanctification by living the ordinary life of wife and mother in a spirit of Christian mission and compliance with God’s will. Her daily attendance at Mass, her total surrender to God, her readiness to help anyone in need, and her being an active member of the Third Order of the Most Holy Trinity were, at the same time, the sources and the fruits of her intense spiritual life.
She had a very close friend, Blessed Elizabeth Canori-Mora, who also was a wife and mother. They helped and supported each other in their marriages and difficulties and grew together in holiness and sanctity in their married vocation.
Blessed Anna Maria entered the Third Order of the Most Holy Trinity on December 26, 1808. God enriched her with many supernatural gifts. The most unusual of these was the apparition of a luminous globe like a miniature sun, which shone before her eyes and in which, for forty-seven years, she could see present and future events anywhere in the world as well as the state of grace of individuals, living or dead.
Anna Maria Taigi died June 9, 1837. In testimony to how an ordinary housewife and mother could become a saint and positively affect society and the lives of those who came in contact with her, the Church declared her “Blessed” in 1920. Her mortal remains lie in the Chapel of the Madonna in the Basilica of San Crisogono in Rome, Italy. The Trinitarians are actively promoting the cause of her canonization.
Triduum Prayer to Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
Pray one of the three prayers below daily for three days:
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O Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, by that humble submission with which you believed in and adored the august mystery of One God in Three Persons, obtain for me from the Most Holy Trinity the favor which Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, by the great love and tender pity with which you honored the mysteries in the life of Jesus, obtain for me from Him the favor which I earnestly implore. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and forever shall be, World without end. – Amen (repeat three times) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * O Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, through your filial devotion to the Blessed Virgin, obtain for me from Her the favor which I humbly implore.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and forever shall be, World without end. – Amen (repeat three times)
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I love Bd. Anna Maria Taigi — thank you so much for posting this! I’m so glad there’s news on her canonization! The testimony of her husband for her cause for canonization is utterly beautiful, and always inspires me to be the wife I should be for my own husband. And when I was at her tomb in Rome in 2007, I truly believe she healed me from a terrible cold I was getting at the beginning of our pilgrimage there. What a beautiful patroness for wives and mothers!
Bl. Maria Taigi is an inspiring role model for many of us wives. I also remember that she asked her husband’s permission to stop dressing attractively: i.e., she asked to dress plainly, no color, no jewelry, and he granted her wish because she was such an outstanding, obedient wife in every other way. My H however, actually told me that I was dressing “too plainly” a few months ago … and I think that if I were a better wife in general it wouldn’t have bothered him as much .. plus I didn’t ask him if I could. I’m not nearly advanced enough spiritually to be able to dress drably without feeling really depressed about myself. Bl. Maria Taigi is someone to aspire to, definitely.
I like what St. Thomas Aquinas talks about in the Summa…that a woman dresses for her husband. I like that! Of course, if someone’s husband wants “his little woman” to dress more provocatively, that’s another story…
I am currently reading the book “Secular Saints” by Joan Carrol Cruz(I hope I spelled the name right). Among the saints and blesseds I’m reading about is Blessed Anna Maria Taigi. She went through trials and tribulations most of us never will dream of, so it makes a person think about his/her own life.