Saint
Saint Vincenza Maria Poloni
- Country / origin
- Italy
- Life
- 1802–1855
- Feast
- Feast in local or religious-order calendars
- Canonised
- 19 October 2025
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
An Italian religious devoted to the poor, the sick and the abandoned; foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona.
Patron of
- mercy
- the sick
- the poor
- service of the vulnerable
When to ask for intercession
- learning to care for those who suffer
- for nurses, carers and works of charity
A short prayer
Saint Vincenza Maria Poloni, teach me to serve Christ in the sick, the poor and the forgotten.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
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