Antonia Maria Verna
Italian religious (1773-1838)
Feast: 25 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Antonia Maria Verna was born at Pasquaro, near Rivarolo Canavese, on 12 June 1773, to a humble farming family. As a girl she gathered the neighbours' children while their parents worked in the fields, teaching them the catechism and their prayers, and at fifteen she vowed perpetual virginity.
At about 25 she moved to Rivarolo, caring for children, the sick and the poor, and young women joined her. Though an adult, she went back to school to serve them better, and in 1806 she first asked leave to found the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception of Ivrea.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A farm girl who taught the children of her village and founded a congregation to serve them.
The cause
Antonia Maria Verna has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception of Ivrea: Blessed Antonia Maria Verna.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Antonia Maria Verna
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 2 October 2011
- Wikidata Q3619004 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Antonia Maria Verna (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.