Ana Marija Marović
Italian painter (1815-1887)
Who they were
Ana Marija Marović (pseudonym Filotea; 1815 – 3 October 1887) was a writer and painter in Italy and Montenegro. She also founded a women's congregation and co-founded the Instituto Canal ai Servi, an institution devoted to helping women. A cause for her beatification in the Catholic Church was formally opened on 12 January 1952, and she was declared a Servant of God. Some of her poems were republished in 1963 and 1997.
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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 is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Suore della Riparazione (Venice) — Vita della Venerabile Anna Maria Marovich — The congregation she founded publishes her life as "la Venerabile Anna Maria Marovich (in croato, Ana Marija Marović), nata a Venezia il 7 febbraio 1815"; her cause was opened in 1952.
- Wikidata Q4750420 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ana Marija Marović (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.