Maria Adeodata Pisani, OSB (29 December 1806 – 25 February 1855) was a Maltese Catholic Benedictine nun at St Peter's monastery in Mdina, Malta.

After her grandmother’s death, she was sent to the famous Istituto di Madama Prota, a boarding school in Naples where the daughters of the local aristocracy received their education.

[2] Besides suffering from delicate health, Pisani had a deformed shoulder, caused, it was later testified, by injuries sustained at the hands of a maid who beat her when she lived with her grandmother in Naples.

Her mother tried to find her a suitable husband, but Pisani declined all marriage proposals, preferring to lead a quiet life, attending church and helping the poor.

The beatification was soon followed by the unveiling of a huge portrait of the Blessed — a replica of an original oil painting commissioned in 1898 by Pietro Pace, the Archbishop of Rhodes and Bishop of Malta.

Through her prayer, work and love, she became a well-spring of that spiritual and missionary fruitfulness without which the Church cannot preach the Gospel as Christ commands, for mission and contemplation require each other absolutely (cf.

We still await a full flowering of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on the transcendent value of that special love of God and others which leads to the vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience.

I commend to all consecrated men and women the example of personal maturity and responsibility which was wonderfully evident in the life of Blessed Adeodata.Today the back wing of St Peter's monastery in Mdina has been opened to the public as a museum.