Margherita Maria Guaini
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Born | Ceto, Val Camonica, Brescia, Italy | 12 November 1902
Died | 2 March 1994 Varallo Sesia, Italy | (aged 91)
Margherita Maria Guaini, Foundress of the Missionaries of Jesus the Eternal Priest, was born on 12 November 1902, in Ceto, Val Camonica in the Italian Province of Brescia.[1] Her parents, Battista Guaini and Elisabetta Filippini, gave her the name Alice Antonia, when she was baptized on the same day that she was born.[2]
When she was ten years old (in 1912), her Family moved to Gozzolina, in the Municipality of Castiglione delle Stiviere, where she received her first communion two years later, on 21 June 1914, in the Parish of Sts. Nazario and Celso.[2]
Since her youth, Antonietta (as she was fondly called by her family) showed deep attraction to prayer, devotion to the
When she was at the age of twenty years, she lost her mother. This left Antonietta to assist her father in taking care of all their family needs. She did so by working as a nurse in Castiglione and
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After spending her life for God and humankind, and with the commitment to continue being the "mother" of priests and of those who suffer, she died in Varallo Sesia on 2 March 1994, at the age of 92 years. Her remains are enshrined in the Church of Our Lady of Graces in the same place where she died.[2][5]
On 29 April 2011, Mons. Renato Corti, Bishop of Novara, opened the diocesan phase of the canonical procedure in view of examining the heroic virtue of Mother Margherita Maria Guaini, who is now a Servant of God.[6]
Today, the Institute of the Missionaries of Jesus the Eternal Priest, which she established, is present in Italy, Latin America, Philippines, and India.[2]
References
- ^ Cf. Ugo Poletti, Una Madre nello Spirito, 1996: PIEMME, Casale Monferrato, p. 11.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cf. Missionary Sisters of Jesus the Eternal High Priest, Brochure Servant of God, Mother Maria Margherita Guaini, Imprimatur: Bishop Renato Corti, Diocese of Novara (Italy).
- ^ Cf. Ugo Poletti, Una Madre nello Spirito, 1996: PIEMME, Casale Monferrato, p. 274.
- ^ Cf. Ugo Poletti, Una Madre nello Spirito, 1996: PIEMME, Casale Monferrato, p. 275.
- ^ Cf. Ugo Poletti, Una Madre nello Spirito, 1996: PIEMME, Casale Monferrato, p. 276.
- ^ Santi, Beati e testimoni