Paola Gambara Costa
Feast: 24 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Binasco near Milan, Blessed Paola Gambara Costa, widow, who, enrolled in the Third Order of Saint Francis, bore her violent husband with such patience as to lead him to conversion, and always exercised charity towards the poor in an outstanding way.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 24 January as a Franciscan tertiary whose patience converted her violent husband.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 24 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q26702295 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Paola Gambara Costa (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.