Maria Costanza Panas
Maria Costanza Panas, born Agnese Pacifica Panas, (15 January 1896 - 28 May 1963), was an Italian Capuchin Poor Clare. Panas did her education in northern Italian cities before she worked as a teacher. It was not until a short while following her teaching career that she decided to become a nun and so entered a convent in secret after her parents and uncle exhibited opposition to her desire. In the convent she served as novice mistress and served as an abbess on two separate occasions and was even elected to a prominent religious council despite her several severe illnesses during the late 1950s.
The beatification process for Panas launched in 1983 in the Diocese of Fabriano-Matelica and she became titled as a Servant of God. The cause gained greater traction on 10 October 2016 after Pope Francis signed a decree that recognized her heroic virtue and named her as venerable. He approved her beatification in 2022 and she was beatified in Fabriano on 9 October 2022.
In the Martyrology
- May 28 Blessed Maria Costanza (Agnese Pacifica Panas), abbess