Devoted to Christian unity, beatified by Saint Pope JPII

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

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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