Margherita Maria Guaini
The Vatican record
- 17 December 2022 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2022)
Who they were
Alice Antonia Guaini, in religion Margherita Maria, founded the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Jesus the Eternal Priest; she was born at Ceto, Italy, on 21 November 1902 and died at Varallo Sesia, Italy, on 2 March 1994. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 17 December 2022.
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 2022.
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 published in 2022
- 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.