Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska was a Polish religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Czeska was widowed following her call into the religious life. Her beatification was celebrated on 9 June 2013.
Ludovica Albertoni was an Italian Roman Catholic noblewoman from the Renaissance period and a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. The death of her husband prompted her to dedicate her life to the service of the poor in Rome and she was also known for her ecstatic experiences.
Karolina Gerhardinger was a German Roman Catholic religious sister who founded the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Gerhardinger served as an educator in Bavaria until the establishment of her order, which provided free education to the poor and soon expanded in Europe.
Pierina Morosini was an Italian Roman Catholic from Bergamo. She was killed after a man tried to rape her. Morosini served as a member of the Catholic Action movement.
Blessed Maria Pia Mastena - born Teresa Maria - was an Italian religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the founder of the Religious Sisters of the Holy Face. Mastena fostered a deep devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and tried to promote that devotion to others in her religious career as a nun. Mastena first desired the contemplative life but was denied this after she entered the convent since it was not a cloister. Instead she dedicated herself to teaching in several Italian cities after having left another convent and another religious order when she deemed contemplative life was not the life she felt God wanted for her. Her labors were dedicated instead to consolidating a new religious congregation which began to grow after World War II until Mastena's sudden death in 1951. Mastena was beatified on 13 November 2005.
The Order of the Most Holy Annunciation (OMHA), also known as the Turchine or Blue Nuns, as well as the Celestine Nuns, is a Roman Catholic religious order of contemplative nuns formed at Genoa, Italy, by Blessed Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata in honour of the mystery of the Incarnation of Christ.
Mariana Navarro de Guevara, in full Mariana Navarro de Guevara Romero was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun who became a member of the Mercedarian Tertiaries. Upon admittance she took the religious name Mariana of Jesus. She was noted for a life of penance and an emphasis on devotion to the Eucharist and is sometimes called the "Lily of Madrid".
Maria Karłowska – in religious Maria of Jesus Crucified – was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of the Divine Shepherd of Divine Providence. Karłowska worked with poor and abandoned people with an emphasis on girls and also tried to aid prostitutes avoid such a life and build another kind of life so used her order to reach out to such people to render assistance.
Carolina Santocanale was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who assumed the name of "Maria of Jesus" and established the Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculata of Lourdes. Santocanale became well known for her treatment of the ill and the poor to whom she devoted her life and work to and was also a member of the Secular Franciscan Order.
Leopoldina Naudet was an Italian Roman Catholic of both French and Austrian origins. She was a religious sister of the Congregation of Dilette of Jesus and the foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Verona. Naudet served in the court of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and after his death served his daughter Maria Anna who became an abbess and professed religious alongside Naudet and her sister.
Anna Maria Adorni Botti, born Anna Maria Adorni, was an Italian religious sister of the Handmaids of the Immaculata, a congregation she established in 1857. Botti's vocation was to the religious life and as a child believed she was destined for the missions and later as a Franciscan religious sister. After being widowed she did pastoral work in Parma where she established and ran the congregation of the Handmaids of the Immaculata until her death.
Rafaela Porras Ayllón, religious name Mary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was a Spanish religious sister who established the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in conjunction with her sister Dolores. She devoted herself to the management of the congregation and resided in Rome until her death after her resignation as the congregation's superior in 1893.
Barbara Maix, ICM was an Austrian Catholic who established the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and assumed the religious name Maria Barbara of the Holy Trinity. Maix dedicated her life and service to the adequate treatment of the poor and ill with an added emphasis on the recognition of female dignities.
Villana de' Botti, TOSD was an Italian Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. She turned to the Dominicans after a sudden conversion from a dissolute life and was noted for her simplistic life born out of her conversion. She was a pious and devoted child but after she was married she had fallen into secular values.
Elena Duglioli was an Italian Roman Catholic aristocrat from Bologna noted for her devotion to Christian life and social teachings. Duglioli wanted to become a nun for the Poor Clares but instead married in order to please her parents. Duglioli is best known for commissioning a chapel with an image of Saint Cecilia to whom she was devoted.
Eurythimia Üffing was a German religious sister of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin and Our Lady of Sorrows. She was beatified on 7 October, 2001.
Fornari is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Elvira Moragas Cantarero, religious name María Sagrario de San Luis Gonzaga, was a Spanish nun of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.
María Francisca Ricart Olmos, religious name María Guadalupe, was a Spanish nun of the Servite Order. Ricart's call to the religious life manifested at the time she made her First Communion after expressing the desire to consecrate herself to God; she entered the convent when she turned fifteen and served her convent as both a prioress and mistress of novices. Her peers held her in high regard for her dedication to helping and instructing the novices as well as for her compassionate and jovial character.
Fidela Oller Angelats was a Spanish religious sister of the Hermanas de Sant Josep o Vetlladores. She suffered martyrdom in the Spanish Civil War when she was gunned together along a road at Xeresa. On 5 September 2015, she was beatied in the Girona Cathedral.
