Elisabetta Canori Mora
Italian Roman Catholic mystic (1774–1825)
Feast: 5 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Rome, Blessed Elisabetta Canori Mora, mother of a family, who, after long suffering because of her husband's unfaithfulness, financial hardship and cruel harassment by relatives, bore everything with unsurpassed charity and patience and offered her life to the Lord for the conversion, salvation, peace and sanctification of sinners, joining the Third Order of the Most Holy Trinity.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 5 February as a Roman mother who bore great suffering with charity and offered her life for sinners.
- Roman Martyrology, 5 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1771432 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Elisabeth Canori Mora (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.