Giovanna Maria Battista Solimani
The Vatican record
- 28 November 2019 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2019)
Who they were
Maria Antonia Solimani, in religion Giovanna Maria Battista, was a nun who founded the Hermit Nuns of St John the Baptist and the Missionaries of St John the Baptist; she was born in Genoa, Italy, on 12 May 1688 and died there on 8 April 1758. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 28 November 2019.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised her heroic virtue in 2019.
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.
Connected on this site
- John the Baptist Saint“Maria Antonia Solimani, in religion Giovanna Maria Battista, was a nun who founded the Hermit Nuns of St John the Baptist and the Missionaries of St John the Baptist; she was born in Genoa, Italy, on 12 May 1688 and died there on 8 April 1758.” — this site's research
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - decrees published in 2019
- 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.