Maria Anna Sala
Maria Anna Sala (21 April 1829 – 24 November 1891) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who was a member of the Sisters of Saint Marcellina. She served throughout her life as an educator across the northern Italian cities and carried out her work in the name of God.
Sala continued to serve as a teacher even when it became known in 1883 that she had contracted throat cancer though the progression of the illness made her duties far more difficult to perform. She died of the disease almost a decade after contracting it.
Her beatification was celebrated on 26 October 1980.
Patron saint of Sisters of Saint Marcellina; Throat cancer; Against throat cancer; Educators
In the Martyrology
- November 24 Blessed Maria Anna Sala, virgin