Teresa Manganiello
Italian religious (1849–1876)
Feast: 4 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Teresa Manganiello was born at Montefusco, near Benevento, on 1 January 1849, the eleventh child of a farming family, and a farm worker herself. Though unlettered, she showed great maturity of mind; at twelve she made a private vow of virginity.
She joined the Franciscan Third Order on 15 May 1870 and gave her short life to prayer, penance and helping the needy. She died on 4 November 1876, not yet 27.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A farm girl who gave her short life to prayer and the poor.
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 - biography: Teresa Manganiello
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 22 May 2010
- Wikidata Q541740 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Teresa Manganiello (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.