Maria Domenica Mantovani
Maria Domenica Mantovani (12 November 1862 - 2 February 1934) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious, and the co-founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family; she established them alongside Giuseppe Nascimbeni. As a nun she received the religious name of Maria of the Immaculate.
She was beatified on 27 April 2003 and canonized on 15 May 2022.
Patron saint of Little Sisters of the Holy Family
In the Martyrology
- February 2 Saint Maria dell’Immacolata Mantovani, founder of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ