Chiara Badano
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Chiara Badano, called Chiara “Luce” (which means "Light"), (Sassello
, October 29, 1971 –
Sassello
, October 7, 1990) was an Italian teenager who has been declared "Blessed" within the Catholic Church. She belonged to the Focolare Movement
and died prematurely at eighteen after succumbing to osteosarcoma
, an aggressive and painful form of bone cancer. She was beatified on September 25, 2010 in the Sanctuary of “Our Lady of Divine Love” in Rome
. Her memorial is 29 October.
Sassello
Sassello is a comune in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about 58 km west of Genoa and about 26 km north of Savona in the northern side of the Ligurian Apennines.-History:...
, October 29, 1971 –
Sassello
Sassello
Sassello is a comune in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about 58 km west of Genoa and about 26 km north of Savona in the northern side of the Ligurian Apennines.-History:...
, October 7, 1990) was an Italian teenager who has been declared "Blessed" within the Catholic Church. She belonged to the Focolare Movement
Focolare Movement
The Focolare Movement is an international organization that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood. Founded in 1943 in Trento, northern Italy by Chiara Lubich as a religious movement, the Focolare Movement, though primarily Roman Catholic, now has strong links to the major Christian...
and died prematurely at eighteen after succumbing to osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma is an aggressive cancerous neoplasm arising from primitive transformed cells of mesenchymal origin that exhibit osteoblastic differentiation and produce malignant osteoid...
, an aggressive and painful form of bone cancer. She was beatified on September 25, 2010 in the Sanctuary of “Our Lady of Divine Love” in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. Her memorial is 29 October.
See also
- Pier Giorgio FrassatiPier Giorgio FrassatiBlessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, T.O.S.D., was an Italian Catholic activist, who was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. He has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church....
- Ivan MerzIvan MerzBlessed Ivan Merz was a Bosnian-Croatian lay academic, beatified by Pope John Paul II on a visit at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 23, 2003...
- Alberto MarvelliAlberto MarvelliAlberto Marvelli was an Italian member of the Catholic Action.Born at Ferrara, he was given a Christian formation by his mother, who kept their home open to the poor...
- Bartolome Blanco MarquezBartolome Blanco MarquezBlessed Bartolomé Blanco Márquez Bartolomé Blanco Márquez was born in Pozoblanco, Córdoba Province, Spain in 1914. He was arrested as a Catholic leader—he was the secretary of Catholic Action and a delegate to the Catholic Syndicates—on Aug. 18, 1936. He was executed on Oct...