Maria Assunta Pallotta was an Italian nun of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who served in China during the early 20th century. Born in 1878 in Force, she joined her religious order in Rome and later requested to serve in Chinese leper colonies. Following the Boxer Rebellion, she traveled to the Shanxi province, where she worked in an orphanage and learned Mandarin. She died in Taiyuan in 1905 after contracting typhus, famously requesting the sacraments and expressing her devotion to the Eucharist in her final moments.