Francesca dello Spirito Santo
The Vatican record
- 9 October 2017 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2017)
Who they were
Carolina Baron was born at Mailhac, France, on 12 December 1820 and took the religious name Frances of the Holy Spirit.
She founded the Institute of the Third Order of St Francis of Montpellier, and died at Saint-Chinian on 28 December 1882. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 9 October 2017. She is not the Filipino foundress of the same religious name.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The foundress of the Franciscan Tertiary Sisters of Montpellier.
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 - decrees promulgated 9 October 2017
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.