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Pope Benedict XIV did not start a beatification procedures to sanctify Imelda Lambertini, though he had honoured this young nun (who died in 1333) when he was prelate. Within an event where the gaps are more numerous than the surviving documentation, 18th-century erudition inspired by Muratori represents a time of impasse in the cult of the blessed Imelda. This paper reconstructs the history of the failure to support the cult of a member of his family on the part of Benedict XIV (1675-1758), and is divided into three parts. First, we outline the events and documents allowing us to reconstruct the information that Benedict XIV attempted to collect about his family blessed; second, we trace the 17th and 18th century development of the cult of Imelda to identify the salient features of an image of potential sainthood and to contextualize the issue of devotion to the Eucharist, linked to the life of the blessed Imelda, within the debate over the Eucharist. The final section attempts to define the reasons for the doubts entertained by 18th-century culture over this hagiographic event to explain the motivations that may have induced Benedict XIV to abandon this possibility, in light of the close but also profoundly critical ties between the Bolognese Pope and his family and native city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]