Clotilde Micheli
ltalian nun and Blessed (1849–1911)
Feast: 24 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Clotilde Micheli was born on 11 September 1849 at Imèr, Trento, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to poor but deeply Christian parents who taught her to trust wholly in God and help anyone in need.
As Mother Maria Serafina of the Sacred Heart she founded the Sisters of the Angels, who still teach children and young people and care for the sick. Always suffering physically, she spent her last years at Faicchio.
The miracles
Sister Michelina Acocella, of the Sisters of the Angels — November 1999
A healing of the sick sister, following prayer to the Venerable, judged to be linked to that invocation.
Why that counted as sanctity
A poor girl taught to trust God who founded sisters for children and the sick.
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: Maria Serafina del Sacro Cuore di Gesù
- Wikidata Q439002 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Clotilde Micheli (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.