In the Church of Corpus Domini and the adjacent monastery, the museum develops that documents the figure of Saint Catherine de Vigri (1413-1463), initially lady-in-waiting to Margherita d’Este, then a member of the Poor Clares of Corpus Domini in Ferrara, and finally abbess of the first Poor Clares monastery in Bologna, canonized in 1712.
To the left of the nave, the path opens with the chapel where the incorrupt body of the Saint is venerated, seated on a golden throne. Here are displayed the ‘Madonna del Pomo’ and the ‘Child Jesus’ painted by Catherine herself; the manuscripts of her works, ‘Breviary’ and ‘The Seven Spiritual Weapons’, numerous ex-votos and reliquaries. Among the relics of the saintly Clare, an amateur musician as well as a painter, is the famous “violeta”, a precious testimony of a 15th-century vielle.
In the adjacent room are kept small panels painted by Giulio Morina in 1594; the Saint’s bed, some chairs, a 15th-century wooden crucifix, and an embroidered mantle donated by a noble Bolognese family.
