09 Sep Old and Antique Book and Print Market – September 6th and 7th, 2025, Città di Castello
At the prestigious Old and Antique Book and Print Market (September 6th and 7th, 2025), which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the Monastery of Santa Veronica Giuliani and the Santa Veronica Giuliani ETS Foundation have been invited to take part in this event to receive the donation of a relic attributed to the Saint. The relic was found inside a volume printed in Florence in 1770.
This was the first official event the Monastery of Santa Veronica Giuliani and the Santa Veronica Giuliani ETS Foundation attended together. The Monastery’s Mother Abbess and the Foundation’s President, Madre Chiara Veronica Sebastiano, and Sister Serafina di Fonzo, a Capuchin nun and member of the Foundation’s board of directors, attended on their behalf. The speeches were held in the splendid main hall of the Palazzo dei Vitelli and were inspired by the exhibition’s theme, Paper, Ink and Freedom: The Italian Constitution Between Memory and Future.
Attending the event were the Mayor of Città di Castello, Luca Second; the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Anna Ascani; the Scientific Director and Curator of the Exhibition, Giancarlo Mezzetti; the President of the Palazzo Vitelli Sant’Egidio Association, Fabio Nisi; and Loris di Giovanni, the owner of the Capitolium auction house in Brescia, where the relic was found inside a text belonging to the Manetti family of Florence.
La reliquia donata al Monastero sarà sottoposta a un approfondito studio e, se sarà confermata l’appartenenza a Santa Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727), verrà conservata insieme ai ricordi e alle reliquie più importanti che fanno già parte del patrimonio spirituale e culturale del Monastero.
“Saint Veronica Giuliani was a forced writer,” said the Abbess and President, Sister Chiara Veronica. “In 1693, she began to keep a diary at the behest of her confessor, in which she recounted everything she experienced in her intimacy with God. She wrote not out of her own desire but to obey a specific request, and she remained faithful to what was asked of her until the end of her life, filling 22,000 pages. Over time, she came to understand the duty and responsibility of a written testimony, which is always a tool for freedom and dignity. Thanks to those pages, which are carefully preserved in the Monastery’s archives and have been published over the years, she is still present and alive, and she still speaks as a woman and as a believer.”
