Saturday, April 22, 2017

Beatified by St. PJPII and patron of ecumenism

Bl. Maria Gabriella Sagheddu


Image of Bl. Maria Gabriella Sagheddu

Facts

Feastday: April 22
Patron of Ecumenism
Birth: 1914
Death: 1939
Beatified By: 25 January 1983, Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls, Rome, Italy by John Paul II


Blessed Sister Maria Gabriella Sagheddu was a Trappist nun. She was born in Sardinia in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata in 1939. Because of her spiritual devotion to Christian unity, she was beatified by pope John Paul II in 1983.

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