Teresa Grillo Michel
Italian nun (1855–1944)
Feast: 25 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Teresa Grillo was born at Spinetta Marengo, near Alessandria, on 25 September 1855, of an aristocratic, wealthy family, and married Captain Giovanni Battista Michel of the Bersaglieri.
Widowed at 36 and childless, she felt driven to give herself wholly to the least, and became mother to many who were abandoned: orphans, the elderly, the sick. Selling all her property, she founded the Little Sisters of Divine Providence.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A childless widow who sold everything to become mother of the abandoned.
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
- Luigi Orione Saint“Grillo founded a religious congregation that would expand into Latin America and she would also maintain contact with important individuals such as Luigi Orione and Clelia Merloni both of whom she befriended.” — Wikipedia
- Clelia Merloni Blessed“Grillo founded a religious congregation that would expand into Latin America and she would also maintain contact with important individuals such as Luigi Orione and Clelia Merloni both of whom she befriended.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Teresa Grillo Michel
- Wikidata Q3984294 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Teresa Grillo Michel (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.