Maria Carmelina Leone
Palermo teenager and catechist who died at seventeen
Who they were
From a poor Palermo family, she taught catechism at the Casa Professa church and died of illness at seventeen; she was popularly called the little saint of Palermo.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The decree on heroic virtues has been promulgated; a miracle would come next.
Why that counted as sanctity
The cognitional process opened in the archdiocese on 29 January 1982 and closed on 11 July 1986, and the decree on her heroic virtues was promulgated on 8 March 1997.
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.