Steiner, Agnese Chiara del Sacro Costato, Venerable (STEINER, AGNESE CHIARA DEL SACRO COSTATO, VENERABILE)

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

STEINER, AGNESE CHIARA DEL SACRO COSTATO, Venerable — In the world Teresa, foundress of the Poor Clares

Born on 29 Aug. 1813 at Tesido (Taisten) in the diocese of Bressanone, died at Nocera Umbra on 24 Aug. 1862.

After overcoming serious difficulties, she entered, in 1838, the Third Order of St. Francis among the Bavarian sisters of Assisi, and changed her name. Mistress of novices in 1843, she taught them the Seraphic virtues, seeking to instil in them the love of Jesus Crucified with which she was inflamed, even to the highest heights of mystical union. In 1844

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STEIN, JOANNES WILHEMUS JACOBUS ANTONIUS - Portrait.

She was called to found at Nocera Umbra a convent of Mitigated Poor Clares, of which she was the first abbess. There she died with a reputation for holiness.

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

BIBL.: F. da Reus, Compendio della Vita della serva di Dio suor M. A. C. S. del Castato di Gesù, 3ª ed., Foligno 1889; J. Baur, La Cirena di Testdo, 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