Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
Maria Sagheddu (17 March 1914 – 23 April 1939) - in religious Maria Gabriella - was an Italian Catholic professed religious and a professed member from the Trappists. Sagheddu had an intense spiritual devotion to ecumenism - something for which she had offered her life - since she desired that all would become one in Jesus Christ. Her childhood saw her noted as stubborn and obstinate though her increased activeness in teaching catechism and joining Azione Cattolica saw those qualities melt and become gentleness and careful attentiveness.
Sagheddu was beatified in Rome in 1983.
Patron saint of Ecumenism; Ill people
In the Martyrology
- April 23 Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu, Trappist virgin