Venerable Anna-Maria Taigi
A mother of seven children in Rome, Anna-Maria Taïgi reconciled a humble domestic life with extraordinary mystical gifts. A Trinitarian tert…
Patronage
mothers
5 saints
Elisabetta Tasca Serena
An Italian layperson and mother, Elisabetta Tasca Serena lived a simple and hardworking life of family devotion and abandonment to God, guid…
Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962) is an Italian lay saint, a physician and mother who sacrificed her life to save that of her unborn ch…
Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin
Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin (1969-1995) was an Italian mother declared Venerable by Pope Francis in 2021. Suffering from a sarcoma, she ch…
Saint Rictrude (Wife of Saint Adalbald)
Born into the Basque nobility, Rictrude married Duke Adalbaud of Douai, with whom she led a life of exemplary charity. After her husband's a…