Maria Adeodata Pisani
Maltese beatified nun (1806–1855)
Feast: 25 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Maria Teresa Pisani was born in Naples on 29 December 1806, daughter of Baron Pisani, and raised by her grandmother; when she died, the ten-year-old went to boarding school, where she received a good Christian education. At nineteen she went to Malta, her father's homeland.
As Sister Maria Adeodata, a Benedictine, she became abbess of the monastery of St Peter, governing wisely and caring for the poor and needy for the spiritual good of the community. She died on 25 February 1855.
The miracles
Mother Maria Giuseppina Damiani, abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Subiaco — 1897
An extraordinary healing attributed to Sister Adeodata's intercession.
Why that counted as sanctity
A baron's daughter who became a wise and charitable Benedictine abbess in Malta.
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 Adeodata Pisani
- Wikidata Q281427 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Maria Adeodata Pisani (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.