Barbe-Élise Poux (Mother Marie Saint-Michel)
French founder of the Congregation of the Holy Angels at Mâcon
Who they were
Mother Marie Saint-Michel Poux founded the Congregation of the Holy Angels, whose sisters now work in Brazil as well as France.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
Her cause was opened in the diocese of Autun after the nihil obstat of 6 July 2002; the congregation's own site carries a section on her beatification process and gives her birth date as 24 October 1798.
The cause
Barbe-Élise Poux (Mother Marie Saint-Michel) is named a Servant of God; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: The cause of Barbe-Élise Poux (Mother Marie Saint-Michel).
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.