Teresa Lanfranco
The Vatican record
- 13 April 2024 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2024)
Who they were
Annunziata Addolorata Lanfranco, in religion Teresa, was a professed religious of the Congregation of the Daughters of St Mary of Leuca; she was born at Gallipoli, Italy, on 24 March 1920 and died in Rome on 8 June 1989. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 13 April 2024.
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 2024.
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 2024
- 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.