Maria Rosa Agostini

Maria Rosa Agostini (3 May 1722 – 16 March 1768) was an Italian lay Dominican regarded as "the Merchant Saint of Loreto". She was in consideration for sainthood.

Biography She was a Dominican tertiary and lived with her family who owned a merchant shop in the city, facing the incomplete south section of the west wing of Basilica della Santa Casa. She is venerated a "venerable" in the Dominican Order.

In 2016, Bianca Gjomarkaj Nakovics, a descendant of Agostini, published a book entitled La Merchaiai Santa di Loreto: Venerabile Maria Rosa Agostini, La Sua Vita e Morte in her memory and revive an interest on her saintly life.