Arcangela Filippelli
Italian girl killed at fifteen resisting a rape
Who they were
The canonical process ran from 1 October 2007 to 29 May 2013. Santi e Beati gives her birth as 16 March 1853, noting she was registered at the town hall the next day, which is the Hagiography Circle's date.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
A girl of Longobardi in Calabria who was attacked by a young man of the village on 7 February 1869 and killed with an axe when she resisted; her cause is one of martyrdom in defence of chastity.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.