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Gaetana Sterni

Italian beatified nun (1827-1889)

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Feast: 26 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1827
Died
1889
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

At Bassano near Vicenza, Blessed Gaetana Sterni, religious, who, widowed while still young, gave herself entirely to the service of the poor and founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Divine Will for the care of the poor and the sick.

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 26 November as a young widow who founded the Sisters of the Divine Will to care for the poor and sick.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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