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Blessed Antonia Maria Verna (12 June 1773 – 25 December 1838) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who went on to establish a new religious congregation known as the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception of Ivrea. Pope Benedict XVI approved a miracle attributed to her intercession and delegated Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to celebrate her beatification in 2011. ==Life== Antonia Maria Verna was born in Turin on 12 June 1773 to Guglielmo Verna and Domenica Maria Vacheri as their second daughter. She was baptized mere hours after her birth. Verna cultivated her deep religious calling as a child and intensified her devotion to Saint Joseph whom she elected as her special patron. As a teenager she began to feel a call to religious life and began to teach catechism to the children in her village and she attended the Institute of San Giorgio Canavese as a student. At the age of 15 she began to open herself to whatever God would want of her. Her parents wanted her to find a husband but she announced her intention to consecrate herself to God. In 1806 she established a small group that would soon become her new religious congregation. Their aim was to teach and catechize to children as well as care for those who were ill in their own homes. Their first home opened in 1819 and King Charles Felix granted secular approval to the order on 7 March 1828. The bishop of her diocese granted his approval on 10 June 1828. Verna died in 1838 on Christmas after a prolonged illness. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antonia Maria Verna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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