Antonia Mesina
Italian martyr and Blessed (1919–1935)
Feast: 17 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Antonia Mesina, the second of ten children of a rural guard, was born at Orgosolo, Sardinia, on 21 June 1919. She grew up in the girls' youth of Catholic Action.
At sixteen she defended her chastity to the death.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A girl of Catholic Action who chose death rather than consent to sin.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Antonia Mesina
- Wikidata Q2608376 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Antonia Mesina (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.