Francesca Fabbroni
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Livorno
- Date of birth
- April 1619
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 0
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Abbess
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Benedictines
- Accusations
- Pretense of sanctity
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1675
- End date
- 1689 (1681)
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Florence
- Extradition
- Other judges involved
- Notes
In February 1678, by order of the Congregation of the Holy Office, Fabbroni was transferred to the Monastery of Santa Caterina in San Gimignano, stripped of her habit, and confined to a cell. There, she was interrogated by the Inquisitor of Florence, Fra’ Francesco Antonio Triveri, on July 4, 1680, and May 19, 1681. She died on September 24, 1681, refusing communion, impenitent, and buried in unconsecrated ground.
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Florence
- Local judge
- [Francesco Antonio Trivieri]
- Sentence date
- 27 February 1689
- Sentence place
- Florence, , Santa Croce
- Crime category
- Formal heresy and Pretense of holiness
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 5 March 1689
- Authority
- Secular Arm (Tribunale degli Otto)
- Execution place
- Florence
- Execution type
- Burned in effigy
- In effigy
- Yes
- After death
- Yes
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Yes
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- Sacraments imparted
- Notes for execution
The trial was concluded only in 1689: on February 27th in Florence, in the church of Santa Croce, in the presence of the inquisitor and his advisors, the vicar of the bishop of Volterra, and a large crowd, the summary of the trial and the sentence of condemnation for “affected sanctity” issued by the Holy Office against the nun were read. The nun’s portrait and her exhumed remains were handed over to the secular arm and on the following March 5th they were burned and scattered to the winds.
Sources
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- Decrees and acdf sources
On the execution: Firenze, Archivio di Stato (ASF), ms. 139: Francesco Settimanni, Memorie Fiorentine, vol. XIII, cc. 139r-141r;
Sentence: ACDF, St. St. U V 40 cc. 119-130
(Vedi MALENA, pag. 43 nota 3)
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