Maria Costanza Panas
Italian nun and Venerated Catholic
Feast: 28 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
The Vatican record
- 10 October 2016 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2016)
- 18 February 2022 — Miracle through their intercession approved (decree list, 2022)
Who they were
Agnese Panas was born in 1896 and entered the Capuchin Poor Clares, taking the name Maria Costanza.
She lived in the monastery of San Romualdo at Fabriano, in the Marche, from 11 October 1917 until her death there on 28 May 1963.
The miracles
A healing was approved by Pope Francis for her beatification. Its details are not given in the sources we found.
She was beatified in Fabriano Cathedral. One more approved miracle is needed for canonisation.
Why that counted as sanctity
On 10 October 2016 the Church declared that this life showed the Christian virtues to a heroic degree, and gave the title Venerable. The case of a person was examined by the Church's doctors and theologians and approved as a miracle on 18 February 2022, opening the way to beatification. Beatification followed on 9 October 2022 by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, for Pope Francis.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - decree of 18 Feb 2022
- Capuchin Friars (OFMCap) - beatification of Maria Costanza Panas, 9 Oct 2022
- Wikipedia - Maria Costanza Panas
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q62102413 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Maria Costanza Panas (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.