Blessed Veronica Antal

Beata Veronica Antal

Beato

Post-Congregation

Día de Fiesta

24-Aug

Nacimiento

7 December 1935 in Nisiporesti, Botesti, Neamt, Romania

Fallecimiento

Stabbed 42 times and left to bleed out on the evening of 24 August 1958 in a cornfield near Halaucesti, Iasi, Romania

Beatificado

22 September 2018 by Pope Francis; beatification celebrated at the Church of Adormirea Maicii Domnului, Nisiporesti, Romania, presided by Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu; Franciscan Father Anton Demeter had hidden materials about her life and death, and was only able to start the beatification process after the end of Communist rule in 1989; first Romanian woman to be beatified; first Romanian lay person formally honoured as a martyr from the period of Communist rule

Biografía

Beata Veronica Antal, también conocida como Verónica de Nisiporesti, nació el 7 de diciembre de 1935 en Nisiporesti, Botesti, Neamt, Rumanía. Fue la mayor de cuatro hermanos en su familia y fue criada en un hogar profundamente arraigado en la fe cristiana. Verónica recibió su educación religiosa inicial de su piadosa abuela, quien le inculcó un amor por el cristianismo y una fervorosa devoción a Dios.

Causa de Canonización

Beatified

Beatificado2018-09-22 por 22 September 2018 by Pope Francis; beatification celebrated at the Church of Adormirea Maicii Domnului, Nisiporesti, Romania, presided by Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu; Franciscan Father Anton Demeter had hidden materials about her life and death, and was only able to start the beatification process after the end of Communist rule in 1989; first Romanian woman to be beatified; first Romanian lay person formally honoured as a martyr from the period of Communist rule