Maria degli Angeli di Santa Teresa
The Vatican record
- 11 December 2019 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2019)
Who they were
Dináh Amorim, in religion Maria degli Angeli di Santa Teresa, was a professed religious of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary, Religious of the Pious Schools; she was born at Cláudio, Brazil, on 8 August 1917 and died in Rio de Janeiro on 1 September 1988. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 11 December 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.
- 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.