Sunday, April 21, 2024

Monday Saint of the Day

 

Bl. Maria Gabriella Sagheddu


Feastday: April 22
Patron: of Ecumenism
Birth: 1914
Death: 1939
Beatified: 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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