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Italian widow, foundress to be beatified

October 01, 2010

Venerable Anna Maria Adorni (1805-93), a wife and mother who founded the Congregation of Handmaidens of Blessed Mary Immaculate of Parma after her husband and all six of her children died, will be beatified on October 3. Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will preside at the beatification, which will take place in the northern Italian city of Parma.

 

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