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Bl. Artemide Zatti. / Twitter @infoANS ENVatican City, Apr 12, 2022 / 06:05 am (CNA).Pope Francis has approved the canonization of an immigrant nurse who died from liver cancer in 1951.Bl. Artemide Zatti was born in Italy, but emigrated to Argentina with his family in 1897, at the age of 16. The family left their homeland due to extreme poverty. At the age of nine, Zatti was already helping his parents by working as a farmhand.The pope gave his approval on April 9 to a miracle received through Zatti s intercession, paving the way for his canonization as a saint.As a young man, Zatti attended a Catholic parish run by the Salesians of Don Bosco in the Argentine town of BahÃa Blanca. At 20 years old, he joined the candidacy to become a Salesian priest.While living in the Salesian community, Zatti contracted tuberculosis after caring for a young priest with the disease.One of the Salesian priests, a nurse, suggested that Zatti pray for the intercession of Mary Help of Christians, m.