Maria Maddalena dell’Incarnazione
beatified nun from Italy (1770-1824)
Feast: 29 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Caterina Sordini was born at Grosseto on 16 April 1770, the fourth of nine children of a deeply Catholic family. At seventeen her father arranged her marriage to a sea merchant; she resisted, then complied.
She founded the Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A foundress who gave her life to perpetual adoration of the Eucharist.
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.
Connected on this site
- Pius VII Servant of God“She was forced out of Rome as a result of Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of the Italian peninsula but returned following his defeat and the return of Pope Pius VII to Rome.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Maria Maddalena dell'Incarnazione
- Wikidata Q440108 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Caterina Sordini (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.