Maria Edvige Zivelonghi
The Vatican record
- 19 May 2018 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2018)
Who they were
Maria Edvige Zivelonghi was a professed sister of the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus, born at Gorgusello di Breonio, Italy, on 26 April 1919, who died at Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Italy, on 18 March 1949. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 19 May 2018.
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 2018.
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 2018
- 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.