STEINER, AGNESE CHIARA DEL SACBO COSTATO, VENERABILE - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. XI, p. 796

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

STEINER, Agnes Chiara del Sacro Costato, Venerable – Born Teresa at Tesido (T'aisten) in the diocese of Bressanone on 29 August 1813, died at Nocera Umbra on 24 August 1862.

After overcoming severe difficulties, in 1838 she entered the Third Order of St Francis among the Bavarian sisters of Assisi and took a new name. Mistress of novices in 1843, she instructed them in seraphic virtues, striving to transform them into the love of Jesus Crucified of which she was enamoured to the highest peaks of mystical union. In 1844

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she was summoned to found at Nocera Umbra a convent of Mitigated Clarisses, of which she became the first abbess. There she died in a reputation for holiness.

“Maria Agnese is a saint, truly a saint,” Pius IX said of her. On 18 March 1909 her cause of beatification was introduced in Rome.

BIBL.: F. da Reus, Compendio della Vita della serva di Dio suor M. A. C. S. del Costato di Gesù, 3rd ed., Foligno 1889; J. Baur, La Cirenea di Tesilo, Vittorio Veneto 1950; anon., Nel I cent. della Riforma delle Clarisse della ven. madre M. A. C. S. in Nocera Umbra 1846-1946, Nocera 1946. Giovanni Baur