Giuditta Vannini

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23 February
AttributesReligious habit
PatronageDaughters of Saint Camillus

Giuditta Vannini (7 July 1859 – 23 February 1911)

Superior General until her death while Tezza was exiled to Peru around 1900.[4][5]

Her beatification process opened in the 1950s, though its formal introduction came in the late 1970s at which point she became titled as a

Saint Peter's Square on 13 October 2019.[6][7][8]

Life

Giuditta Vannini was the second of three children to the

Confirmation were celebrated on 19 March 1873. Vannini obtained a diploma as a kindergarten teacher but settled instead on the religious life.[5]

Vannini entered the Vincentian Sisters on 3 March 1883 to become a

Superior General.[2] Her profession was made in private since her initial application for ecclesiastical approval of the order had been rejected.[4]

But she and Tezza faced difficulties soon after when Pope Leo XIII decided not to allow for the opening of new religious congregations around 1900 added with the unjust slander directed at Tezza which led to the Cardinal Vicar of Rome Pietro Respighi sending him to Lima in Peru in 1900 to exercise his pastoral mission there. This new development prompted for the leadership of the order to fall to Vannini alone and she would maintain correspondence with Tezza until her death.[5][3] The congregation received formal approval from Respighi on 21 June 1909 as an order of diocesan right.

In 1910 she visited the order's Italian houses and those in France before suffering from heart disease. Vannini died during the evening on 23 February 1911 in her bed in Rome from heart disease; her remains were interred in Rome but later relocated to the order's motherhouse in Grottaferrata.[4][5] The congregation received the decree of praise on 25 February 1922 from Pope Pius XI and received papal approval from Pius XI a decade later on 17 June 1931.[3] In late 2005 there are 823 religious in a total of 97 houses in places in Europe such as Poland and Portugal. The congregation also operates in Latin America in countries such as Argentina and Mexico and also operates in Africa in Benin and Burkina Faso.

Canonization

The diocesan process for the beatification process commenced on 8 June 1955 and ended on 20 December 1956. Her spiritual writings were all collected and investigated while forming an essential part of the beatification process as being a vital component to investigating her virtues and her religious life; the decree on her writings was signed on 22 March 1961. The formal introduction of the cause – which titled Vannini as a

Venerable on 7 March 1992 on the account of her model life of heroic virtue which she practiced throughout her life.[2]

Her beatification depended upon papal confirmation of a miraculous healing attributed to her intercession that neither science or medicine could explain. The miracle required was investigated in the diocese that it originated in and the C.C.S. validated that process on 20 December 1985. The panel of medical experts (not all of them Catholic) met and approved the healing as having no scientific or medical explanation on 16 March 1993; theologians approved it as well, on 4 June 1993, as having occurred due to Vannini's intercession. The C.C.S. itself also approved the healing as a legitimate miracle on 5 October 1993 and passed it onto the pope, who approved it on 23 December 1993. John Paul II celebrated her beatification on 16 October 1994 (it was celebrated during the Ninth General Assembly of the

Synod of Bishops on the theme of consecrated life in the world).[2][5]

The second and final miracle required for her to be canonized was investigated in the

Saint Peter's Square on 13 October 2019.[8][7][6]

The postulator for the cause is Bernadette Rosoni; the postulator before that was Gabriella Marzio.

References

  1. ^ "Giuseppina Vannini: From being an orphan to caring for the sick - Vatican News". vaticannews.va. 12 October 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Blessed Josephine Vannini". Saints SQPN. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Biographies of New Blesseds – 1994". EWTN. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Vannini, Giuseppina, Bl". encyclopedia.com. New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2003. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Beata Giuseppina Vannini". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Pope advances sainthood causes, including Brazil's 'Mother Teresa'". Catholic Philly. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  7. ^ a b "Pope advances sainthood causes, including Brazil's 'Mother Teresa'". catholicnews.com. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  8. ^ a b Linda Bordoni (1 July 2019). "Pope to canonize Newman and four others on 13 October". Vatican News. Retrieved 5 July 2019.

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