Blessed Giuliana of Collalto (c. 1186 in

Collalto, Susegana Collalto is a village in the province of Treviso in northern Italy, forming a 'frazione' or part of the municipality of Susegana. Geography At the northern end of the municipality and about 6 kilometres from its capital, the territory of Collalto ...

– September 1, 1262 in

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) was an Italian Benedictine nun. She was

beatified Beatification (from Latin ''beatus'', "blessed" and ''facere'', "to make”) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their nam ...

in 1743 by

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Life

She was the daughter of Rambaldo VI di Collalto, count of

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

, and his wife Giovanna, from the

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n house of the counts of Sant'Angelo. She was born in the family seat of the

house of Collalto The House of Collalto (full name - ''Princes of Collalto and San Salvatore'') is an old and distinguished Austro-Italian noble house of Lombard origin, named after their seat at Collalto in Susegana, now in the Province of Treviso in Italy. Th ...

in the town of the same name. She became a nun at a young age and met Beatrice I d'Este in the Santa Margherita Convent on mount Salarola (Calaone). She moved to the convent on the Giudecca in Venice where she rebuilt the church of San Cataldo with its monastic annex and became its abbess. She died in 1262 and was buried in the church's cemetery, although her body was translated to its current resting place in the church of

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in 1822. A church dedicated to the blessed Giuliana can be found in Brtnice, Czech Rep. on the former

fideicommissum A ''fideicommissum'' is a type of bequest in which the beneficiary is encumbered to convey parts of the decedent's estate to someone else. For example, if a father leaves the family house to his firstborn, on condition that they will bequeath it to ...

property of the Collalto house in Bohemia.

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* {{cite web, url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92513, title=Santi e beati. Beata Giuliana di Collalto 1180s births category:1262 deaths category:Italian Benedictines category:Italian beatified people 13th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns Italian Roman Catholic abbesses category:People from Treviso Beatifications by Pope Benedict XIV