9 July Optional Memorial
Blessed Jane Scopelli was born in Reggio Emilia in 1428. Inclined to piety from a young age, she obtained permission from her parents to become a cloistered Carmelite while remaining living with the family. After the death of her parents, she joined other women and formed a community in 1480.
In the city of her birth, with the placet of Bishop Filippo Zoboli, she obtained in 1495 the house and church of the Umiliati, which she transformed into a monastery, vulgarly called "Le Bianche" and entrusted to the Congregation Mantovana. There she exercised the office of prioress. Extraordinary events are attributed to the blessed who was endowed by God with an extraordinary charism and rich in profound Marian piety.
She died on July 9, 1491. Her cult was approved by Clement XIV on August 24, 1771. When the monastery was closed in 1803 on account of the Napoleonic suppression, the Blessed's body was transferred to the city's cathedral, where it is still venerated today.