Elena Valentinis
Italian nun and blessed
Feast: 23 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Udine, Blessed Elena Valentinis, widow, who, in order to serve God alone, worked hard in the Secular Order of Saint Augustine, devoting herself to prayer, to reading the Gospel and to works of mercy.
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 23 April as a widow of Udine in the Augustinian secular order, given to prayer, the Gospel and works of mercy.
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, 23 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q18202809 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Elena Valentinis (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.