[2] She broke off this engagement on the night before her wedding in 1817[3][4] because she felt a clear and concise call to the religious life so that she could devote herself to the needs of the poor.

[3][2] On 10 November 1828 she established the Franciscan Elizabethan Sisters in Padua – with the aid of the priest Luigi Maran (1794–1859) and named it in honor of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.

[2] Her congregation was aggregated to the Order of Friars Minor on 19 February 1904 while Pope Pius X issued the decree of praise on 5 April 1910.

The order now operates in Kenya, Ecuador, Argentina, Egypt, Israel and in South Sudan amongst other states and as of 2005 has 117 houses with a total of 1032 sisters.

The Positio was submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1986 and was sent to a session of historians in order for the latter group to assess whether or not the cause had historical obstacles that would prevent it from proceeding.

validated the previous three processes and assigned theologians to discuss the cause to which the latter voiced approval to the contents of the Positio on 28 June 1988.

The miracle in question involved the perfect and rapid cure of Sergia De Carlo – from Vendramini's own order – in December 1936 in Padua who was suffering from a combination of tuberculosis and Pott's Disease.