Carmelina of the Cross (Carmelina Tarantino)
Italian Passionist sister who spent twenty-four years in a Toronto hospital bed
Who they were
Tarantino was confined by illness to a bed at Riverdale Hospital in Toronto, where crowds came to her for prayer and counsel.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
Santi e Beati records that the Holy See granted the nulla osta on 1 September 2008 and that the diocesan inquiry ran in the archdiocese of Toronto from 21 March 2009 to 20 October 2019.
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.