Germana Sommaruga
Italian laywoman who founded the Missionaries of the Sick 'Christ the Hope'
Who they were
She left the novitiate of the Daughters of St Camillus in 1936 to form a community of consecrated laywomen in the spirit of St Camillus de Lellis, the Missionaries of the Sick 'Christ the Hope'.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocesan phase of her cause ran at Verona from 28 June 2011 to 20 October 2014.
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.
Connected on this site
- Camillus de Lellis Saint“She left the novitiate of the Daughters of St Camillus in 1936 to form a community of consecrated laywomen in the spirit of St Camillus de Lellis, the Missionaries of the Sick 'Christ the Hope'.” — this site's research
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.