Barbara Sicharter
Austrian founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Vorau
Who they were
She gathered companions at Vorau in Styria to nurse the sick and poor at home, and the community grew into a hospital and the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocesan inquiry for her beatification opened in the diocese of Graz-Seckau on 4 May 2022.
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.