Maria Lorenza Longo

Maria Llorença Requenses Llong (Italian: Maria Lorenza Longo; 1463 – 21 December 1539) was a Spanish nun and the founder of the order of the Capuchin Poor Clares. Llong founded the Ospedale degli Incurabili Santa Maria del Popolo in Naples which received numerous papal privileges from Pope Leo X and Pope Adrian VI.

Her beatification was celebrated in Naples on 9 October 2021.

Life Maria Llorença Llong was born in Lleida sometime in 1463 to nobles and she relocated to Naples in 1506 alongside her husband Juan Llong (who enjoyed the favor of Ferdinand II of Aragon) despite being paralyzed at the time.

The cause was formally opened on 4 September 1892 under Pope Leo XIII and Llong was titled as a Servant of God. Sanfelice opened an apostolic process on 2 December 1893 and the process concluded on 19 December 1903 when Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco closed it. The Congregation of Rites validated the processes on 27 November 1907 and went on to remain inactive for several decades. On 12 June 2004 the postulator in charge of Franciscan causes, Florio Tessari, filed a petition to Cardinal Michele Giordano to reopen the cause and the cardinal oversaw the supplementary process from 29 June 2004 until 16 May 2005. The cause's re-opening was approved on 30 November 2005 after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the nihil obstat and then validated the supplementary process on 1 February 2008.

The postulation submitted the positio to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 2015 and a board of historians approved the cause and the contents of the dossier on 1 September 2015. Theologians approved the cause on 9 March 2017; Pope Francis confirmed Llong's heroic virtue and named her as venerable on 9 October 2017.

Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to Llong's intercession on 27 October 2020; and her beatification was celebrated in Naples on 9 October 2021. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro presided over the celebration on the Pope's behalf. The postulator for this cause is Carlo Calloni.

On 8 March 2005 a dossier was found on an alleged miracle that recorded the cure of Maria Cherubina Pirro who was cured of severe tuberculosis on 15 October 1881 after visiting the remains of Llong.