Anne-Marie Taigi: Life, Prophecies, and Prayers

Anne-Marie Taigi is a mystic, a mother, and a religious sister of the Order of Trinitarians from the 18th century. Radiating faith and love, the Blessed proclaimed the Good News around her and was the living witness to the infinite love and goodness of the Lord. She experienced numerous ecstasies, had visions, obtained miraculous healings and delivered many prophecies.

Biography of Anne-Marie Taigi

Anne-Marie Taigi was born Anne-Marie Giannetti in Siena on May 29, 1769. After her father, a pharmacist by trade, went bankrupt, the entire family had to move to Rome where he found work as a domestic servant.

Between 1774 and 1776, she attended a school run by the Pious Filippini Teachers (a teaching religious congregation of pontifical right, founded in 1707 in Rome). She obtained a diploma at the end of her studies and found work as a domestic servant to help provide for her family.

On January 7, 1789, at the age of twenty-five, Anne-Marie married Dominique Taigi, who worked as a valet at the Chigi Palace. She quickly realized that her husband was quick-tempered and difficult but she remained patient and took good care of their home. Anne-Marie also cared for her sick, embittered, and grumpy in-laws, nursing them. Anne-Marie and Dominique had seven children. Unfortunately, three of them died in infancy. This caused her great sorrow as she was an attentive and loving mother. Anne-Marie took care of her four children's education, while also managing the house, cooking, sewing clothes for everyone, and keeping the accounts. Anne-Marie did nothing without her husband's agreement. He agreed that she join the Order of Trinitarians on December 26, 1802, while she continued to care for their home. Anne-Marie's interior and spiritual life was rich and overflowed around her. If, outwardly, nothing distinguished her from other housewives, in reality, her joyful character and ever-even temper soothed hearts. Her husband said this about her overflowing faith: "She spoke of God, her husband would say, without becoming tiresome as many devout women are." Furthermore, Anne-Marie regularly had visions of the Lord. He would appear while she was taking care of her home, and she would then politely ask Him to let her fulfill her duty as a wife and mother: "Leave me, Lord, I am a mother of a family." One day, Jesus said to her, "Today, I have chosen you to go into the world to convert souls and console people of all conditions: priests, religious sisters, prelates, cardinals, and even my Vicar."

Anne-Marie helped the poorest by welcoming them into her home and visited the sick in hospitals.

Anne-Marie bore the stigmata of Christ (thus making her the second woman of the 19th century to be stigmatized) and experienced numerous ecstasies. She miraculously healed many sick people, notably Duchess Marie-Louise of Etruria who suffered from epileptic seizures and prayed to her fervently.

Anne-Marie Taigi gave her soul to the Lord on June 9, 1837, at the age of 68, in Rome. She was beatified on May 30, 1920 by Pope Benedict XV, after being declared venerable on March 4, 1906. She is celebrated on June 9. Today, her body is incorrupt and rests in the Roman basilica of San Crisogono of the Italian Trinitarians.

Prophecies of Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie had many visions from which she drew prophecies. It is said that she predicted the fall and death of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on Saint Helena.

She is also said to have learned the day of her own death during an ecstasy; she knew she would die on Good Friday, June 9, 1837. Here are other events she predicted after her visions or ecstasies:

• The return of Pope Pius VII to Rome

• The election of Pius IX and the events of his pontificat

• The riots of 1830 in Belgium and Poland

• A planetary catastrophe beginning with "frightful meteors": a vision of a "globe in flames"

• "Pestilential darkness" around the earth (unfortunately, these are not her exact words from her own hand. But all of Anne-Marie's biographers have spoken of "three days of darkness")

• The Holy See will be forced to live on alms.

The prophecy of the "three days of darkness" is sometimes attributed to Saint Padre Pio but other Catholic mystics, including Saint Faustina Kowalska, confirmed that the prophecy was indeed that of the Blessed Italian:

"God will send two punishments: one will be in the form of wars, revolutions, and other evils; it will come from the earth. The other will be sent from Heaven. An immense darkness will come over the Earth, which will last three days and three nights. Nothing will be visible and the air will be harmful and pestilential and will cause damage, but not exclusively to the enemies of Religion. During these three days, artificial light will be impossible; only blessed candles will burn. During such days of distress, the faithful must remain in their homes to recite the Rosary and beg God for mercy... All the enemies of the Church (visible and unknown) will perish on Earth during this universal darkness, except for a few who will convert... The air will be infested with demons who will appear under all sorts of hideous forms. [...] After the three days of darkness, Saint Peter and Saint Paul... will designate a new pope... Then Christianity will spread throughout the world..."

Two Beautiful Prayers to Blessed Anne-Marie Taigi

Prayer to Anne-Marie to Obtain a Grace

"O Blessed Anna-Maria Taigi, who in your humble home and amidst the occupations of the world, practiced all Christian virtues to the point of heroism, obtain for us from God the grace to conform our lives to the examples you have left us, so that we may one day share in your happiness in heaven. Amen."

Prayer to Anne-Marie Taigi to Become Holy

"Eternal praise to the Most August Trinity who has raised you to such great glory in heaven, O Blessed Anna-Maria. Amidst your happiness, remember me, your servant. Ask the Lord for my soul, O my heavenly advocate, the gift of a lively faith, which may be the rule of all my works; a firm hope, which may sustain me in spiritual combat and in all the difficulties of life; a burning charity, which may unite me ever more to God and inspire in me a great horror for even the shadow of sin. Obtain for me also the particular grace that I ask of you... if it is in conformity with the will of God and favorable to my eternal salvation. Amen."

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