Alfonsa Clerici
Italian religious (1860-1930)
Feast: 14 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Alfonsa Clerici was born at Lainate, near Milan, on 14 February 1860, into a family of deep Christian faith. While training as a teacher at the college of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of Monza she decided to give herself wholly to God, and entered their novitiate on 15 August 1883.
She served as teacher and then head of the college, and helped steer her institute through a financial crisis in the early 1900s. At the Archbishop of Vercelli's request she then ran the diocesan Istituto della Provvidenza, which took in and educated girls from the poorest families, for about nineteen years.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A teaching sister who gave her life to the poorest girls of Vercelli.
The cause
Alfonsa Clerici has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Archdiocese of Vercelli: Blessed Alfonsa Clerici.
Connected on this site
- Maria Matilde Bucchi Venerable“Alfonsa Clerici (14 February 1860 - 14 January 1930) was an Italian religious sister of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood, a congregation that was founded by Maria Matilde Bucchi.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Alfonsa Clerici
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 23 October 2010
- Wikidata Q3389421 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Alfonsa Clerici (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.