Orsola Mezzini
The Vatican record
- 9 December 2013 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2013)
Who they were
Orsola Mezzini was a professed religious and superior general of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Little Mission for the Deaf and Dumb; she was born at Campeggio di Monghidoro (Bologna, Italy) on 12 December 1853 and died in Bologna on 23 March 1919. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 9 December 2013.
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 2013.
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 2013
- 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.