Sibillina Biscossi
Feast: 19 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Pavia, Blessed Sibillina Biscossi, virgin, who, having become blind at the age of twelve, lived for sixty-five years as a recluse beside the church of the Order of Preachers, enlightening with her inner light the many who came to her.
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 19 March as a blind virgin who lived sixty-five years as a recluse beside the Dominican church at Pavia.
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, 19 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q768577 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Sibyllina Biscossi (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.