Blessed Benigna Cardoso Da Silva - Catholic Blessed

Blessed Benigna Cardoso Da Silva

Blessed

Post-Congregation

Feast Day

24-Oct

Born

15 October 1928 in Sítio Oitis, Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brazil

Died

Slashed and beaten with a machete by Raimundo “Raul” Alves Ribeiro at about 4pm on 24 October 1941 in Sítio Oitis, Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brazil; buried in the São Miguel Cemetery in Ceará; re-interred at the parish church of Senhora Sant´Ana in Ceará on 26 May 2012

Beatified

24 October 2022 by Pope Francis; beatification celebrated at the Square of the Cathedral of Nossa Senhora da Penha, Crato, Brazil, presided by Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner

Venerated

2 October 2019 by Pope Francis (decree of martyrdom)

Biography

Blessed Benigna Cardoso Da Silva was born on October 15, 1928, in Sítio Oitis, Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brazil. She was the youngest of four children born to José Cardoso da Silva and Thereza Maria da Silva. Tragically, Benigna's father passed away before she was born, and her mother died when she was just a year old. Consequently, she and her brother were taken in and raised by another family.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified

Beatified2022-10-24 by 24 October 2022 by Pope Francis; beatification celebrated at the Square of the Cathedral of Nossa Senhora da Penha, Crato, Brazil, presided by Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner