Maria Lanceata Morelli
Who they were
Maria Vittorina Morelli was born at Dunarobba, in the Diocese of Todi, Italy, on 6 January 1704. At thirteen and a half she entered the Poor Clare monastery of Santa Chiara at Montecastrilli, received the habit in 1719 with the name Maria Lanceata, and made her perpetual vows in 1720.
She served the community as infirmarian and apothecary and had mystical experiences, including a wound in her side received on 10 August 1721. She died at the monastery on 26 August 1762; when her body was exhumed in 1764 it was found incorrupt. Her sisters of the Poor Clare federation call her Servant of God, with her cause still open.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Poor Clare mystic of Umbria whose cause for beatification is open.
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.
- Federazione Santa Chiara, Poor Clares federation (insantaunita.org), 19 December 2020 - 'Suor Maria Lanceata Morelli', naming her Servant of God
- Santi e Beati — Serva di Dio Maria Lanceata Morelli di Montecastrilli — "Serva di Dio Maria Lanceata Morelli di Montecastrilli | Clarissa | Dunarobba, Avigliano Umbro, Terni, 6 gennaio 1704 - Montecastrilli, Terni, 26 agosto 1762" — a Servant of God with an open cause.
- Wikidata Q21197453 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.