Agostina Livia Pietrantoni
Italian Roman Catholic saint (1864–1894) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Agostina Pietrantoni (27 March 1864 - 13 November 1894) - born Livia Pietrantoni - was an Italian professed religious and a nurse from the Thourets.[1] Pietrantoni worked in the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome where she tended to ill victims in a tuberculosis ward before a patient murdered her in 1894.[2]
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Agostina Livia Pietrantoni | |
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Born | 27 March 1864 Pozzaglia Sabina, Rieti, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 13 November 1894(1894-11-13) (aged 30) Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church Apostolic Catholic Church |
Beatified | 12 November 1972, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI |
Canonized | 18 April 1999, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 13 November |
Attributes | Religious habit |
Patronage | Martyrs Nurses Abuse victims People in poverty People ridiculed for their piety |
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Her canonization was held on 18 April 1999 in Saint Peter's Square. The canonization cause opened on 14 December 1945 under Pope Pius XII - she was then made a Servant of God - while Pope Paul VI named her as Venerable on 19 September 1968 before he beatified her on 12 November 1972.[3]