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30/07/2026 6:32 pm
Madre Maria Letizia (Maria Francesca) Pastore of Bitonto, Bari, Apulia Region (ITA) sadly passed away today, aged 110.
She was the OLP in Apulia Region, 7th OLP in Italy.
She was born on 16 October 1915 in Santeramo in Colle, Bari, Apulia Region (ITA).
Rest in peace.
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30/07/2026 7:28 pm
R.I.P. Suor Letizia.
ESO Correspondent for Portugal (since 2026)
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When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
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31/07/2026 8:23 am
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03/08/2026 9:44 am
https://longeviquest.com/2026/07/sister-letizia-italys-oldest-nun-dies-at-110/
Sister Letizia, Italy’s Oldest Nun, Dies at 110
Maria Francesca Pastore, also known as Sister Letizia, the oldest living nun in Italy, passed away in Bitonto, Apulia, on 30 July, at the age of 110 years, 287 days.
Maria Francesca Pastore was born in Santeramo in Colle, Apulia, Italy, on 16 October 1915. She spent her childhood on the family farmhouse in Gioia del Colle. In the 1930s, she suffered the loss of her mother, who died of breast cancer at the age of 42. At 25, in 1940, she entered religious life and became a nun. When choosing her religious name, she took the name Letizia in honor of her mother — a name that had also been borne by several women in her maternal lineage.
In 1966, her father passed away at the age of 88 from colorectal cancer. During this period, she moved to the Monastery of the Virgins in Bitonto, where she patiently and meticulously devoted herself to the art of bookbinding, restoring volumes damaged by the 1966 Florence flood, and to cultivating the art of miniature painting.
Coincidentally, she passed away on the same day as Sister Rosario Soto of Spain, Europe’s oldest living nun, who was 112 years old.
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03/08/2026 12:31 pm
May you rest in eternal peace, Sister Letizia Ms. Maria Francesca Pastore (1915-2026).