Cecilia Eusepi
Italian saint (1910–1928)
Feast: 1 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Cecilia Eusepi was born at Monte Romano near Viterbo on 17 February 1910; her father died 45 days later. From 1915 she went to school with the Cistercian nuns of Nepi.
A tertiary of the Servants of Mary, struck young by a fatal illness, she lived the Apostle's words, finding that 'loving Jesus, suffering becomes lovable to us'. She died at eighteen.
The miracles
A healing judged scientifically inexplicable by the medical board on 1 October 2009 and attributed to her by the theologians on 12 December 2009; the decree was promulgated on 1 July 2010.
Why that counted as sanctity
A girl who, dying young, found in love of Jesus the strength to love her suffering.
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: Cecilia Eusepi
- Wikidata Q3664106 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Cecilia Eusepi (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.