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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.
Maria Aristea Ceccarelli. / camilliani.org.Vatican City, Apr 12, 2022 / 08:55 am (CNA).Pope Francis has advanced the beatification cause of an Italian laywoman who was neglected by her parents, abused by her husband, and suffered prolonged health problems.Maria Aristea Ceccarelli was born in northeastern Italy in 1883 to an illiterate and hard mother, the second wife of a man who had abandoned his first wife and son. Her father was violent and bad-tempered and had lost his money through gambling.When her parents did not provide her with an education, Ceccarelli worked odd jobs in order to pay a neighbor for a limited amount of tutoring. She also attended church and received the sacraments on her own initiative.Before her 18th birthday, Ceccarelli s parents married her off to a man who treated her like an indentured servant, and physically and verbally abused her.At the age of 24, she was forced to have her right eye removed after suffering a perforation of the eyeball. She then.