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Chiara Badano Died at Age 18 in 1990
By Carmen Elena Villa
ROME, MARCH 22, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Catholic lay Focolare movement will soon have its first beatified member. Chiara Badano, who died just 20 years ago while still a teenager, will be beatified Sept. 25.
Bishop Pier Giorgio Micchiardi of Acqui, Italy, announced Friday the beatification, which will take place in Rome. Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, will preside over the ceremony.
Young people of the Focolare movement will that evening celebrate Badano’s beatification in Paul VI Hall. The next day, Sept. 26, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Pope’s secretary of state, will preside over a thanksgiving Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
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By Carmen Elena Villa
ROME, MARCH 22, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Catholic lay Focolare movement will soon have its first beatified member. Chiara Badano, who died just 20 years ago while still a teenager, will be beatified Sept. 25.
Bishop Pier Giorgio Micchiardi of Acqui, Italy, announced Friday the beatification, which will take place in Rome. Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, will preside over the ceremony.
Young people of the Focolare movement will that evening celebrate Badano’s beatification in Paul VI Hall. The next day, Sept. 26, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Pope’s secretary of state, will preside over a thanksgiving Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
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