Maria Gabriella Sagheddu

Maria Gabriella Sagheddu, O.C.S.O., was an Italian Trappistine nun, who was born in Sardinia in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata in 1939, at the age of 25. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1983. Because of her spiritual devotion to Christian unity, for which she had offered her life, she was declared a patron saint of the movement by the Catholic Church.

She was born Maria Sagghedu into a family of shepherds in Dorgali, an eastern coastal town of Sardinia, on March 17, 1914, the fifth in a family of eight children. The family lost their father in 1919. She was said to be obstinate as a child, but was also known to be loyal and obedient. She would say no but she would go at once, is said of her. At the end of her primary studies, she had to leave school to help out at home where she showed herself serious and endowed with a great sense of duty.

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