Maria Costanza Zauli
The Vatican record
- 20 June 2024 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2024)
Who they were
Palma Pasqua Zauli, in religion Maria Costanza, was a professed religious of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart and founder of the Adorer Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament; she was born in Faenza, Italy, on 17 April 1886 and died in Bologna on 28 April 1954. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 20 June 2024.
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 2024.
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 2024
- 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.