Maria Schininà
Maria Schininà (10 April 1844 – 11 June 1910), also known by her religious name Maria of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1889). Her adolescence demonstrated no particular spiritual emphasis though the death of her father and the marriage of her brother prompted a sudden inner conversion that saw her reach out and collaborate with the ill and the poor; she began in 1885 the foundations for what would become the religious congregation that she set up in 1889.
Her beatification cause started in 1975 and culminated in the formal beatification that occurred on 4 November 1990.
Patron saint of Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
In the Martyrology
- June 11 Blessed Maria del Sacro Cuore di Gesù Schininà Arezzo, virgin, founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus