(also Veronica de Julianis; 27 December 1660—9 July 1727)[1] was an Italian Capuchin Poor Clares nun and mystic.

In her writings she confesses that she took a certain pleasure in the more stately circumstances which her family adopted when her father was appointed superintendent of finance at Piacenza.

When Giuliani came of age, her father believed she should marry, and so he desired her to take part in the social activities of the young people.

[4] In 1677, at the age of 17, Giuliani was received into the monastery of the Capuchin Poor Clares in Città di Castello in Umbria, Italy, taking the religious name of Veronica in memory of the Passion of Christ.

At the conclusion of the ceremony of her reception, the bishop said to the abbess: "I commend this new daughter to your special care, for she will one day be a great saint".

[3] Giuliani became absolutely submissive to the will of her spiritual directors, though her novitiate was marked by extraordinary interior trials and temptations to return to the world.

With gritty determination tempered by humility, she led her sisters as novice mistress for thirty-four years and as abbess for eleven.

As a practical woman, she improved her sisters’ comfort by enlarging the convent rooms and having water piped inside.