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Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCarm (Italian: Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi; born Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi; 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607), was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church .
The Pazzi name was added after the Carmelite order nun Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, canonized in 1669, whose family patronized the church.The original convent had been dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen delle Convertite, the patron of once-fallen, now converted women.
The Crucifixion with Mary Magdalene (sometimes called the "Pazzi Crucifixion") is a fresco of c. 1495 of the Crucifixion of Christ by Perugino in the chapter house of the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi in Florence. It is his most notable work in Florence.
The Stella Maris Monastery (Star of the Sea) on Mount Carmel, named after a traditional title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is considered the spiritual headquarters of the order. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, a revered authority on Carmelite spirituality, wrote that devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel means:
George Brown (died 21 October 1618), who later adopted the religious name Gregory, was an English Benedictine and prior of St Laurence, Dieulouard.He was for some time identified as the anonymous translator of Life of St Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi (1619), an identification that is now challenged.
Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi may refer to: Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Italian Carmelite mystic and saint of the Roman Catholic Church; Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, a church in Florence; Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, a cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Chapel of the Holy Cross: Fourth on the right, has a Madonna & St. John Evangelist (1587) by Cesare Conti with frescoes of the Passion (1649) by Bernardino Gagliardi. Chapel of St. Alberto Avogadro: Fifth on the right, the frescoed stories were by Niccolò Circignani. Chapel of St Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi: right transept
The first chapel on the left is the Cappella di Santa Lucia ("Saint Lucy"). The second chapel, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, was designed by Carlo Rainaldi to honor the Carmelite nun canonized by Pope Clement XI in 1669. The ceiling and the altarpiece of the Miracle of the Saint (ca. 1685) was painted by Ludovico Gimignani.