Brigida Morello
religious Italian, founder of the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate
Feast: 3 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Piacenza, Blessed Brigida of Jesus Morello, who, left a widow, consecrated herself to the Lord, devoting herself with all her strength to penance and works of charity, and founded the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate for the Christian education of girls.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 3 September as a widow who founded the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate at Piacenza.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 3 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3644748 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Brigida Morello Zancano (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.