Cecilia Eusepi

[3][1] In 1926 she met the young priest Gabriel Roschini who had recently arrived at Nepi, south or Rome, where Eusepi lived with her family.

[6][7] Eusepi's beatification was celebrated in Nepi on 17, June 2012 and her case was mentioned by Pope Benedict XVI during his Angelus talk at the Vatican that day.

[9] She was the last of eleven children to Paulina Mannucci; her brother Vincenzo was called for service during World War I. Eusepi received her baptism on 26 February from the archpriest Ugo Fulignoli.

Her father died in April 1910 after ill health and on his deathbed entrusted his widow and children to his brother-in-law Filippo Mannucci.

[2] On 6 January 1915 she was taken to a small farm called "La Massa" just off from Nepi with her mother and siblings in the care of her maternal uncle.

[3] During her final illness her religious practice was a comfort to members of the Catholic Action movement as well as seminarians and priests often visited her and sometimes asked her for her opinion on their homilies and other things.

It was then that she met the Servite priest Gabriele M. Roschini who became her confessor and spiritual director and who instructed her to keep a journal; she started this on 29 May 1927 and ended entries on 12 September 1928 weeks before her death.