Bartholomea Capitanio
(1807–1836)
Co-Founder, Educator, Nun, Virgin
Orders/Societies Associated with: Sisters of Maria Bambina*
Place of birth:Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)†
Place of death:Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (Austrian Italy)††
Feastday
26 July
Beatification
30/05/1926 by Pius XI
Canonisation
18/05/1950 by Pius XII
Patronage
Patron of:Lovere†††
Patron of:Sisters of Maria Bambina / Institute of the Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa, teachers
*Institute of the Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa / Instituti Sororum a Caritate in Oppido Luere / Suore di carità delle Sante Bartolomea Capitanio e Vincenza Gerosa [1832]
†Regno d'Italia / Royaume d'Italie [1805–1814]
††Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae (Italia Austriacum) / Regno Lombardo-Veneto (Italia austriaca) / Königreich Lombardo-Venetien (Österreichisches Italien) [1815–1866]
†††Lóer
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
Select a saint’s name from the dropdown below to see more details:
Select criteria below and submit the form to see a list of saints that match the criteria:
Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia