Blessed Leonella Sgorbati
Also known as: Rosa Maria Sgorbati
Feast Day
17-Sep
Born
9 December 1940 at Gazzola, Piacenza, Italy as Rosa Maria Sgorbati
Died
Shot just after 12:30pm on 17 September 2006 outside her children‘s hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia; funeral conducted at the Consolata Chapel in Nairobi, Kenya; buried in Nairobi
Beatified
26 May 2018 by Pope Francis; beatification recognition celebrated at the Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta e Santa Giustina in Piacenza, Italy, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato
Venerated
8 November 2017 by Pope Francis (decree of martyrdom)
Biography
Blessed Leonella Sgorbati, also known as Rosa Maria Sgorbati, was born on 9 December 1940 in Gazzola, Piacenza, Italy. She was the youngest of three children born to Carlo Sgorbati and Giovannina Teresa Vigilini. Leonella was baptized shortly after her birth at the parish church of San Savio.
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