Bl. Maria Teresa Casini

Teresa Casini was born in 1864 at Frascati, near Rome, into a well-off family. She entered the Poor Clares, but ill health forced her to leave.

She felt called to console the Heart of Jesus, especially for the coldness and unfaithfulness of priests. In 1894, with some companions, she founded the "Victims of the Sacred Heart", which became the Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The sisters supported vocations to the priesthood, ran colleges for boys called the Little Friends of Jesus, and cared for sick priests.

Paralysis struck her in old age, and she died at Grottaferrata in 1937, aged seventy-two. She was beatified in Frascati in 2015.

Maria Teresa Casini was beatified in 2015.

Beatification allows public veneration, usually in a particular region or religious family. Canonization extends it to the whole Church.