Maria Oliva Bonaldo
Italian catholic noun
The Vatican record
- 9 December 2013 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2013)
Who they were
Maria Oliva Bonaldo, religious name Maria Oliva Bonaldo of the Mystical Body, (26 March 1893, Castelfranco Veneto – 10 July 1976, Rome) was an Italian religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. The founder and Superior General of the Daughters of the Church was declared venerable by Pope Francis.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q15618106 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Maria Oliva Bonaldo (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.