Artémides Zatti
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Artemide Zatti (12 October 1880 – 15 March 1951) was an
His nephew was the eighth rector of the Salesians – Juan Edmundo Vecchi.[4]
Zatti was beatified on 14 April 2002.[5] On 9 April 2022, Pope Francis approved a second miracle attributed to Zatti. This paved the way for Zatti's canonization on 9 October 2022.[3]
Life
Artemide Zatti was born in
Zatti dropped out of school in 1889 due to the poverty of his parents and he commenced work for a rich neighbor.[1] Zatti's parents believed the current economic climate was not appropriate and that their fortunes were too low. They decided to move elsewhere and arrived in Argentina at a port in Buenos Aires on 9 February 1897, settling in Bahía Blanca.[4][5] An uncle of his lived in Argentina prior to their arrival. He worked in a hotel and also in a brick factory.
He met the priest Carlos Cavalli around this time who encouraged him to become a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco; he entered on 19 April 1900 to commence his novitiate as a secular member.[1] He made his first profession on 11 January 1908.[5] He made his solemn profession as a secular member on 11 February 1911.
Zatti contracted
He attended frequent
He had a hospital constructed in 1913 and was most disappointed and displeased when it was torn down in 1941 and rebuilt into something else.[2]
Zatti fell off a ladder on 19 July 1950 as he climbed to the roof to fix a water tank.[2] He recovered in the hospital where he was not long after diagnosed with liver cancer after his livid skin color was assessed.[2][4] He remained in the hospital from January 1951 until his death.
Zatti died due to liver cancer on 15 March 1951 in Videma. His remains were housed in a Salesian chapel in Viedma.[2]
Sainthood
The beatification process commenced after "
Theologians approved the cause on 25 October 1996 and the C.C.S. followed this on 8 April 1997. Zatti became titled as
The process for investigating a miracle opened in Buenos Aires after Jorge Mario Bergoglio – the future Pope Francis – inaugurated the process on 14 April 1998 and closed it one month later on 14 May 1998. The C.C.S. validated this process in Rome on 20 November 1998. A medical board approved the miracle on 9 March 2000 and theologians followed this decision on 27 October 2000. The C.C.S. voted in favor as well on 6 February 2001 which led to papal approval on 24 April 2001.
The postulator of this cause was Postulator General[6] Father Pierluigi Cameroni.
Zatti was beatified on 14 April 2002 in
On 9 April 2022, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree concerning a second miracle attributed to Zatti. In August 2022, it was announced that he would be canonized on 9 October 2022.[3][7]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Blessed Artemide Zatti". Saints SQPN. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Artemide Zatti". Holy See. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ a b c "Vatican – ARTEMIDE ZATTI, PROCLAIMED SAINT". www.infoans.org (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ a b c d e "Bl. Artemide Zatti". Catholic Online. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f "Blessd Artemide Zatti". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "Postulator team". Salesians Don Bosco. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ CNA. "Immigrant nurse to be canonized". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2022-09-28.