Carolina Santocanale
Carolina Santocanale (2 October 1852 - 27 January 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who assumed the name of "Maria of Jesus" and established the Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculata of Lourdes. Santocanale became well known for her treatment of the ill and the poor to whom she devoted her life and work to and was also a member of the Secular Franciscan Order.
The recognition of her life of heroic virtue in 2000 allowed for Pope John Paul II to declare Santocanale to be Venerable while a miracle attributed to her intercession allowed for her beatification in Monreale on 12 June 2016; Cardinal Angelo Amato presided on the behalf of Pope Francis. She was canonized on 15 May 2022 in Rome.
Patron saint of Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculata of Lourdes
In the Martyrology
- January 27 Saint Maria di Gesù (Carolina Santocanale), religious