Elena Valentinis
Elena Valentinis (1396 - 23 April 1458) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the tertiaries of the Order of Saint Augustine. Valentinis was born to nobles and married a knight during her adolescence while mothering six children before she was widowed in 1441. She soon became a professed religious and dedicated herself to austerities and a life of complete penance.
Her beatification was ratified on 27 September 1848 after Pope Pius IX approved her local "cultus" - or popular veneration.
Patron saint of Widows; Against temptations
In the Martyrology
- April 23 Blessed Elena Valentinis, widow