Maddalena Caterina Morano

Maddalena Caterina Morano (15 November 1847 - 26 March 1908) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who was a member of the Salesian Sisters. Morano served as an educator for her entire life believing it to be her vocation; she served as a catechist in addition to being an educator.

Morano was beatified in Catania on 5 November 1994 during the occasion of the visit of Pope John Paul II to two Sicilian cities.

Life Maddalena Caterina Morano was born on 15 November 1847 as the sixth of eight children to Francesco Morano. Her father and older sister both died in 1855 after the death of five brothers. At the age of fourteen, the pastor of Buttigliera d'Asti opened an educational center for children and she was hired as a teacher.

In 1866 she graduated as a teacher and wanted to enter religious life but was denied this due to the dependence her surviving siblings and mother had on her. Despite this she worked for just over a decade until 1878 as a teacher in Montaldo; she also taught catechism in her local parish.

Morano died on 26 March 1908 of cancer.

The Congregation of Rites decreed all the processes held were valid and approved them on 19 June 1970. The postulation compiled and submitted the Positio to Rome in 1978 and allowed Pope John Paul II to proclaim her to be Venerable on 1 September 1988 on the account of her life of heroic virtue.

The miracle needed for her beatification was investigated and was decreed to be a valid and thorough investigation on 19 June 1992. The pope approved it in 1994 and allowed for her beatification to be celebrated on 5 November 1994.

The present postulator is Pierluigi Cameroni.