Carolina Santocanale (2 October 1852 - 27 January 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who assumed the name of "Maria of Jesus" and established the Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculata of Lourdes.

Carolina Concetta Angela Santocanale was born on 2 October 1852 in Palermo to nobles from the house of Celsa Raele; her father, Giuseppe, was a lawyer, and her mother was donna Caterina Andriolo Stagno.

In 1861, during the Lent period, Carolina left that school and continued her education at home, guided by private tutors, but she did not get any tiles of study.

She soon became the target of marriage offers but she felt a strong call to religious life in which she was torn between the contemplative cloister and working with the poor and the sick.

[citation needed] John Paul II approved her life of heroic virtue and on 1 July 2000 proclaimed her to be Venerable.