Leonia Milito
Italian sister who founded a missionary congregation in Brazil
Who they were
A Franciscan sister of Saint Anthony sent to Brazil in 1954, she founded the Missionary Sisters of Saint Anthony Mary Claret at Londrina on 19 March 1958 and died in a road accident. Santi e Beati places her death at Cambé, where the Hagiography Circle records Londrina.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
Her cause was opened at Londrina in 1998.
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
- Anthony Mary Claret Saint“A Franciscan sister of Saint Anthony sent to Brazil in 1954, she founded the Missionary Sisters of Saint Anthony Mary Claret at Londrina on 19 March 1958 and died in a road accident.” — this site's research
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.