Saint Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
Born Anna-Maria Gallo in Naples, she endured her father's violence for refusing marriage and choosing religious life in the Third Order of Saint Franc…
First name and chronology
6 saints and blesseds bear the name Anna Maria, between 1715 and 1995; the most famous is Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, celebrated on October 6th.
Dated figures are ordered from earliest to latest.
Born Anna-Maria Gallo in Naples, she endured her father's violence for refusing marriage and choosing religious life in the Third Order of Saint Franc…
A mother of seven children in Rome, Anna-Maria Taïgi reconciled a humble domestic life with extraordinary mystical gifts. A Trinitarian tertiary, she …
Anna Maria Adorni Botti (1805-1893) was an Italian widow, foundress of the congregation of the Handmaids of the Immaculate of Parma, beatified in 2010…
Anna Maria Rubatto, born in 1844 in Carmagnola (Piedmont), founded the Capuchin Tertiaries of Loano in 1885 and developed their apostolate in Uruguay …
Madeleine Delbrêl (1904-1964) was a French mystic and social worker, a major figure of the spirituality of the street and ordinary holiness.
An Italian religious of the Sisters of the Poor, Sister Danielangela Sorti dedicated herself to the sick in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, wher…
The feast of Anna Maria is celebrated on October 6th, in memory of Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus.
6 saints and blesseds bear the name Anna Maria, including Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Anna-Maria Taigi, Maria Francesca Rubatto, Anna Maria Adorni Botti and Madeleine Delbrêl.
The most famous saint named Anna Maria is Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus (18th century).