[1] Picenardi was born in Mantua into a noble family and, despite pressure to wed a nobleman, insisted instead on pursuing the religious path alongside her sister.

[1] She clothed herself in a hair shirt and would fasten an iron belt four fingers in width to herself which remained until her death.

Picenardi recited the Divine Office and would receive the Eucharist often from Fra Barnabas who would also hear her confession.

Her sister Orsina was married to the nobleman Bartolomeo Gorni and Picenardi lived with them from her father's death for the remainder of her life.

Her beatification received formal confirmation on 20 November 1804 once Pope Pius VII affirmed her popular devotion in the Servite Order and the dioceseses of Mantua and Cremona.