Seraphina Sforza
Italian beatified nun
Feast: September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Seraphina of Montefeltro, raised in Rome by her uncle Pope Martin V, married Alexander Sforza, Lord of Pesaro, in 1448. When he turned to a dissolute life she tried in vain to reform him; he ill-treated her, even attempted her life, and forced her into the Poor Clare convent at Pesaro.
There she prayed without ceasing for his conversion, which was granted. She became abbess in 1475 and died on 8 September 1478; her body was later found incorrupt.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A wronged wife who prayed her husband back to God.
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.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Blessed Seraphina Sforza
- Wikidata Q3047912 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Seraphina Sforza (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.