Teodora Fracasso, OCD (17 January 1901 - 25 December 1927) - in religion, Elia di San Clemente - was an Italian Catholic nun in the Carmelites.

[1][2][3] Her beatification cause was opened on 11 September 1980 and she became titled as a Servant of God when the cause commenced and this led to the confirmation of her heroic virtue which allowed for Pope John Paul II to name her as Venerable.

[3] In 1906 she claimed to have seen a beautiful woman in a dream moving among rows of blooming lilies who then disappeared in a sudden beam of light.

Her spiritual director and confessor at this stage was the Dominican priest Pietro Fiorillo who introduced her to the charism of the Third Order of Saint Dominic; she was accepted into it on 20 April 1914 and assumed the religious name of "Agnes" upon making her vows on 14 May 1915.

[1][3] In late 1917 she sought advice from her confessor - the Jesuit Sergio di Gioia (her new spiritual director) - who in 1918 directed her and her friend Clara Bellomi to the Saint Joseph convent of the Carmelites in Bari.

[1] On 8 April 1920 she joined the congregation there while taking the religious name of "Elia di San Clemente" upon assuming the habit on that 14 November.

Fracasso came down with a bad case of influenza in January 1927 and her illness became worse over a rapid period of time which included frequent headaches that she never took medication for.

Fracasso was titled as Venerable on 11 December 1987 after Pope John Paul II confirmed that the late religious had led a life of heroic virtue.