Pope recognizes Italian nun as saint
October 11, 2013 - Pope Francis has recognized the sanctity of a 13th
century Italian Franciscan mystic declaring her a saint without a canonization ceremony.
During a meeting on Wednesday with Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation
for the Cause of Saints, the Pope extended to the universal Church the liturgical
cult of Blessed Angela da Foligno of the Secular Order of St. Francis, including her
in the catalogue of saints of the Catholic Church. Born in Foligno around 1248 St.
Angela da Foligno died on Jan. 4, 1309. The Pope also accepted a miracle attributed
to the intercession of Italian Venerable Servant of God Maria Assunta Cateriana Marchetti,
co-foundress of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles. She was born in Italy in 1871
and died in Brazil in 1948. The Pope also recognized the heroic virtues of 6 others
– among them Sister Mary Jane Wilson who was born of British Anglican parents, in
1840, in Harihar, in what is India’s Karnataka today. Two years later she left for
England and following her conversion to Catholicism in 1873, she later went to Portugal
where she founded the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Victories
1884. She died in Camara de Lobos (Portugal) in 1916. Four among those with heroic
virtues are Italians. One is Canadian.
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