Chukwuemeka Maria Steidl was born in 1975 in Germany. She received her religious formation as a pioneer member of the Sisters of the Two Hearts of Love in Nigeria. She had her intellectual formation partly at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Bavaria, partly in Pontifical Universities in Rome, and with the “Studium” of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. She is at present an Assistant of Dogmatic Theology with specialization in Mariology of Prof. Salvatore M. Perrella at the Pontifical Theological Faculty “Marianum”, Rome.