Itala Mela (28 August 1904 – 29 April 1957) was an Italian Roman Catholic who was a lapsed Christian until a sudden conversion of faith in the 1920s and as a Benedictine oblate virgin assumed the name of "Maria della Trinità".

She also penned a range of theological writings that focused on the Trinity, which she deemed was integral to the Christian faith.

[1] Mela was beatified in La Spezia on 10 June 2017 and Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the celebration on the pope's behalf; the miracle in question concerned the revival of an Italian newborn, whose body was in state of clinical brain death.

She was the main friend of Angela Gotelli, a teacher of classic letters and a Roman Catholic partisan who was close to the political ideas of Aldo Moro.

It concluded on 4 January 1933 when she made her profession in Rome in the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura making her four vows.

From 18 February to 24 April 1957, despite her aphasia, she managed to make herself understood with gestures and with her eyes, her smile and the nod of her head.

It was on 12 June 2014 that Pope Francis approved that Mela had lived a life of heroic virtue thus declared her to be Venerable.

Itala Mela's findings were typewritten by the nuns of the Monastery of Santa Maria del Mare in Castellazzo.

In honour of the Blessed Itala Mela, Father Claudio Grana OCD composed the Italian hymn titled Se uno mi ama davvero (If one truly loves me).

For Itala Mela, in fact, daily life is the place where it is possible to meet God and bear witness to one's faith, through concrete gestures of love and charity towards others.

[13] Itala Mela immolated herself, offering her joyful suffering and infirmity to God so that other people could experience the Trinitarian indwelling, for the forgiveness of their sins and their eternal salvation.

It was anticipated by the Diuturnum illud of Pope Leo XIII and then confirmated by the encyclical Mystici corporis of Pius XII.