Maria Maddalena Frescobaldi Capponi
The Vatican record
- 14 March 2024 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2024)
Who they were
Maria Maddalena Frescobaldi Capponi was a laywoman and mother of a family who founded the Congregation of the Passionist Sisters of St Paul of the Cross; she was born in Florence, Italy, on 11 November 1771 and died there on 8 April 1839. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 14 March 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.
Connected on this site
- Paul of the Cross Saint“Maria Maddalena Frescobaldi Capponi was a laywoman and mother of a family who founded the Congregation of the Passionist Sisters of St Paul of the Cross; she was born in Florence, Italy, on 11 November 1771 and died there on 8 April 1839.” — this site's research
- 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.