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{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix=[[Beatification|Blessed]]
|name=Osanna of Mantua
|honorific_suffix=[[Third Order of Saint Dominic|TOSD]]
|birth_date=17 January 1449
|death_date={{death date and age|1505|06|18|1449|1|17|df=yes}}
|feast_day=[[18 June]]
|venerated_in=[[Roman Catholic Church]] ([[Dominican Order]])
|image=Blessed Osanna Andreasi - Unknown artist 16th century.jpg
|image=Osannamantua.jpg
|imagesize=230px
|caption=
|caption=''L'Assunta con la Beata Osanna Andreasi'' by [[Ippolito Andreasi]]
|birth_place=[[Carbonara di Po]]<br> [[Duchy of Mantua|March of Mantua]], Italy[[Holy Roman Empire]]
|death_place=Mantua, March of Mantua,<br>Holy Roman Empire
|titles=[[Virgin and Mystic(title)|Virgin]]
|beatified_date=24 November 1694
|beatified_place=[[Saint Peter's Basilica]], [[Papal States]]
|beatified_by=[[Pope Leo X]] and [[Pope Innocent XII]]
|canonized_date=
|canonized_place=
|canonized_by=
|attributes=Dominican tertiary wearing a [[crown of thorns]] and surrounded by [[Halo (religious iconography)|rays of light]]; Dominican with the [[devil]], under her feet; a broken heart with a [[crucifix]] springing from it; a [[lily]]; two [[angel]]s, one with a lily, one with a cross
|patronage=<!-- WARNING: patronages MUST CORRESPOND to a reliable secondary source, per WP:RS -->
|patronage=[[Schoolgirl|school girls]]
|major_shrine=[[Mantua Cathedral]]
|suppressed_date=
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'''Blessed Osanna Andreasi of Mantua''' (also '''"Hosanna''' and '''Andreassi'''") (Born 17 January 1449, [[Mantua]],&ndash; [[Italy]]18 - DiedJune 1505 ) was aan [[Italian people|Italian]] [[Third Order of St. Dominic|Dominican tertiary]], who gained notice as a [[stigmata|stigmatic]], and [[Christian mysticism|mystic]].
 
==Life==
Osanna was the daughter of Italianthe [[nobility|nobles]] Niccolò Andreasi, whose family had originated in Hungary,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j243sd_OssanaMantua_06_18.html |title=Blessed Osanna of Mantua |author=Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira|authorlink=Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira}}</ref> and of Agnese Gonzaga.<ref>It is unknownnot whetherknown if her mother was related to the [[House of Gonzaga|Mantuan ruling family]].: (Seesee A. L. Redigonda, ‘[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/osanna-andreasi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Andreasi, Osanna’], ''Dizionario biografico degli italiani''. (''DBI'').</ref> She was reported to have had a vision of angels, at age six.<ref name=short>[[Heaven|paradise]],https://archive.org/stream/shortlivesofdomi00conguoft#page/n5/mode/2up andA sister of the [[Trinity]]Congregation atof ageSt. fiveCatherine of Siena. ''Short Lives of the Dominican Saints'', p.208, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., London, 1901]</ref> Feeling called to [[religiousconsecrated life]], she rejected a [[arranged marriage|marriage arranged]] by her father]]. Unable to explain her attraction to religious life to her father, shein secretly1463, receivedat the habitage of the Dominican tertiaries. Returning home14, she explainedsecretly thatreceived shethe had[[religious madehabit]] aof vowthe and[[Third mustOrder wearof itSt. untilDominic]]. sheShe had fulfilledbeen herdrawn promise.<refto name="patrick">{{citethis webOrder |from lasther =Rabensteinadmiration |of firsttwo =Katherinemembers |of titlethe =BlessedOrder, Hosanna[[Catherine of MantuaSiena]], OPand Tert.her Vcontemporary, (AC)[[Friar]] |[[Girolamo workSavonarola]], =Saintswho O'both the Day for July 18 | date =June 1998 | url =http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0618.htm | accessdate =2007-04-08 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070206180037/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0618.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-02-06}}</ref> She became a Dominican tertiary at 17. She waited 37 yearsrepresented to complete her vows so she could care for her brothers and sisters after the deathlives of herstrict parentsself-denial.<ref name="patron">{{cite''Vita webdella | last = Jones | first = Terry | title =Beata Osanna Andreasi'' |by workRoberta =Ghirardini Patron Saints Index | url=[http://www.catholica-forummantova.com/SAINTSinac/sainto05andreasi.htm]{{in lang| accessdate = 2007-04-08 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070212055949/http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/sainto05.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-02-12it}}</ref>
A legend states that Osanna, like [[Catherine of Siena|Saint Catherine]], miraculously learned to read and write. One day she saw a piece of paper with two words and said, "Those words are '[[Jesus]]' and '[[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary]].'" Allegedly, from that time on, anything relating to the spiritual was within her grasp.<ref name="patrick"/>▼
 
Returning home, Osanna explained that she had made a religious [[vow]] and had to wear it until she had fulfilled her promise.,<ref name="patrick">{{cite web|last=Rabenstein |first=Katherine |title=Blessed Hosanna of Mantua, OP Tert. |work=Saints O' the Day for June 18 |date=June 1998 |url=http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0618.htm |access-date=2012-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206180037/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0618.htm |archive-date=February 6, 2007 |url-status=unfit }}</ref> which is an ancient custom. She waited 37 years to complete her vows so she could care for her brothers and sisters after the death of her parents.<ref name="patron">{{cite web | last = Jones | first = Terry | title = Osanna Andreasi | work = Patron Saints Index | url=http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/sainto05.htm | access-date = 2007-04-08 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070212055949/http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/sainto05.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-02-12}}</ref>
When Osanna was thirty years old, she received stigmata on her head, her side, and on her feet. She also had a vision in which her heart was transformed and divided into four parts. For the rest of her life, she actively experienced the Passion, but in an especially intense way on Wednesdays and Fridays. Osanna confided these things in her biographer and "spiritual son," Father Jerome, as well as the fact that for years, she subsisted on practically no food at all.<ref name="ashley">{{cite web | last =Ashley | first =Benedict | title =Osanna d'Andreasi | work =Blessed Osanna d'Andreasi and Other Renaissance Italian Dominican Women Mystics | url =http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/osanna.htm | accessdate =2007-04-11}}</ref>▼
 
▲A legend states that Osanna, like [[Catherine of Siena|Saint Catherine]], miraculously learned to read and write. One day she saw a piece of paper with two words and said, "Those words are '[[Jesus]]' and '[[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary]].'" Allegedly, from that time on, anything relating to the spiritual was within her grasp.<ref name="patrick"/>
Osanna was a mystic who would fall into ecstasies whenever she spoke of God, and a visionary who saw images of Christ bearing his cross. She bore [[stigmata]] along with red marks, but there was no bleeding. She helped the poor and sick and served as spiritual director for many, spending much of her family's considerable fortune to help the unfortunate. She spoke out against [[decadence]], and criticized the [[aristocracy]] for a lack of morality. She was a friend of [[Columba of Rieti|Blessed Columba of Rieti]], and is recorded to have sought counsel from [[Stephana de Quinzanis|Blessed Stephana de Quinzanis]].<ref name="patron"/>▼
 
▲When Osanna was thirty years old, she received the stigmata on her head, her side, and on her feet. She also had a vision in which her heart was transformed and divided into four parts. For the rest of her life, she actively experienced the [[Passion, but(Christianity)|Passion inof anJesus]], especiallybut intenseespecially wayintensely on Wednesdays and Fridays. Osanna confided these things in her biographer and "spiritual son," Fatherthe [[Olivetans|Olivetan]] [[monk]], [[Dom (title)|Dom]] Jerome of Mount Olivet, as well as the fact that for years, she subsisted on practically no food at all.<ref name="ashley">{{cite web | last =Ashley | first =Benedict | title =Osanna d'Andreasi | work =Blessed Osanna d'Andreasi and Other Renaissance Italian Dominican Women Mystics | url =http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/osanna.htm | accessdateaccess-date =2007-04-11 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080320094220/http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/osanna.htm | archive-date =2008-03-20 }}</ref>
[[Image:Beata Hosanna de Mantua.jpg|thumb|150px|Medieval depiction of Osanna of Mantua]]
 
▲Osanna was a mystic who would fall into ecstasies whenever she spoke of God, and a visionary who saw images of Christ bearing his cross. She bore [[stigmata]] along with red marks, but there was no bleeding. She helped the poor and sick and served as spiritual director for many, spending much of her family's considerable fortune to help the unfortunate. She spoke out against [[decadence]], and criticized the [[aristocracy]] for a lack of morality. She was a friend of [[Columbaanother member of Rieti|Blessedher Order, [[Columba of Rieti]], and is recorded to have sought counsel from [[Stephanaanother, de Quinzanis|Blessedthe [[Stephana de Quinzanis]].<ref name="patron"/>
 
These phenomena brought Ossana to the attention of Mantua's ruling family. Most notably, she was sought by [[Francesco II Gonzaga]] and his wife, [[Isabella d'Este]], as both a spiritual guide and a counselor on matters of state. She frequently foretold correctly events which later came to pass, and gained the reputation of a [[Clairvoyance|seer]]. When she died in Mantua on 18 June 1505, all the members of the nobility and clergy attended her funeral, as her body was taken in procession to the Church of St. Dominic, where it was enshrined. Later her remains were transferred to the [[Mantua Cathedral|Cathedral of St. Peter]], where they are still venerated.<ref>Ghirardini</ref>
 
==Relationship with Girolamo de Monte Oliveto==
FatherHer confidant, Dom Jerome ({{langx|it|Girolamo de Monte Oliveto (Jerome of [[Mount Olivet]]}}), was an [[Olivetans|Olivetan Benedictine]].wrote Hisa ''vita'' (biography) of Blessedher Osanna was writtenlife in 1507, very shortly after her death. Although Jerome noted that Osanna was not quick to discuss her spiritual experiences, in the last years of her life, she adopted Father Jerome as a "spiritual son," "conceived in the Blood of Christ."<ref name="ashley"/>
 
Jerome's account is especially unique due to his intimate relationship with his subject. The biography takes the form of a detailed report of his conversations with Osanna. Jerome appended to his account [[Latin language|Latin]] translations of twenty-four letters from Osanna, accompanied by documents certifying their authenticity.<ref name="ashley"/>
 
According to Father Benedict Ashley, [[Dominican Order|O.P.]], these letters express an "intense and constant physical and inner suffering" made bearable only by "sublime experiences of union with God which [Osanna] cannot describe except in broken and inadequate language." A special source of misery for Osanna was the degradation of the Church under the abusive pontificate of [[Pope Alexander VI|Alexander VI]].<ref name="ashley"/>
 
==Veneration==
ByIn a response to a request by the [[marquess|Marchesa]] [[Isabella d'Este]] while on a visit to Rome, through a [[papal brief]] of 8 January 1515 [[Pope Leo X|Leo X]] authorised the celebration of massesher in[[feast honour of the ''beata'' Osannaday]] in the stateCity of Mantua. Her local ''[[cult (religious practice)#Roman Catholic ''cultus]]''|''cultus'']] was confirmed by [[Pope Innocent XII|Innocent XII]] with a [[Papal bull|bull]] of 24 November 1694, and extended to the whole of the Dominican orderOrder two months later.<ref name="patrick"/><ref>''DBI''.</ref><ref name="patrick"/>
 
==Works==
The content of the literary corpus of the Blessed Osanna ranges from mystical reflection to considerations on contemporary social and political questions. Her works consist of:
*''Lettere'', an index of correspondence, addressed to a varied readership, including her fellow Dominicans and members of Mantua's ruling family;
*''Colloqui Spirituali'', or dialogues on spiritual subjects between the Blessed Osanna and Girolamo Girolamo de Monte Oliveto Scolari.
 
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Osanna Andreasi}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061209120949/http://www.op.org/domcentral/study/ashley/osanna.htm#osanna Blessed Osanna d'Andreasi and Other Renaissance Italian Dominican Women Mystics]
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 17 January 1449
| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Mantua|Mantua, Italy]]
| DATE OF DEATH = 1505
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