Saintly Youth of Modern Times

by Carroll Cruz, Joan

• ISBN13: 9781592760046
• ISBN10: 159276004X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Summary

Holiness comes in all sizes. Sometimes it's the littlest who are the greatest in wisdom and grace. It's the youngest who demonstrate heroic virtue ? faith, hope, and love ? far beyond their years. Now Saintly Youth of Modern Times presents the biographies of more than forty of these amazing individuals from around the globe, including one youngster who died at the age of six! Here are boys and girls who watched cartoons on television, went to school, and enjoyed playing sports with their classmates. Here are young men and women who attended dances, drove cars, and loved chatting on the phone with their friends. Here are Catholics who fully lived the Faith, including some who courageously died for it. Read how these young holy ones faced: Arthritis; back problems; cancer and chemotherapy; eye problems; severe headaches; pneumonia; and more. Ranging from those expected to soon receive the title of Servant of God to those already canonized and declared a saint of the Church, here are young souls whose unwavering love of Christ in the Eucharist ? and devotion to his Blessed Mother ? continue to inspire lives today. Look for Saintly Men of Modern Times

Table of Contents

Explanation of Titles	9	(206)
Saintly Youth of Modern Times
Albertina Berkenbrock, Servant of God, (d. 1931), 12 years old, Brazil	11	(4)
Aldo Blundo, Servant of God (d. 1934), 15 years old, Italy	15	(3)
Alexia Gonzalez-Barros, Servant of God (d. 1985), 14 years old, Spain	18	(12)
Anfrosina Berardi, Servant of God (d. 1933,) 13 years old, Italy	30	(2)
Angela Iacobellis, Servant of God (d. 1961), 13 years old, Italy	32	(3)
Angelina Pirini, Servant of God (d. 1940), 18 years old, Italy	35	(3)
Angiolino Bonetta, Servant of God (d. 1963), 15 years old, Italy	38	(4)
Anna Wang, Saint (d. 1900), 14 years old, China	42	(2)
Anne de Guigne, Venerable (d. 1922), 11 years old, France	44	(7)
Annie Zelikova (d. 1941), 17 years old, Czechoslovakia	51	(8)
Antonia Mesina, Blessed (d. 1935), 16 years old, Sardinia	59	(3)
Antonietta (Nennolina) Meo, Servant of God (d. 1937), 61/2years old, Rome	62	(8)
Bernard Lehner, Servant of God (d. 1944), 14 years old, Germany	70	(2)
Caroline Kozka, Blessed (d. 1914), 16 years old, Poland	72	(2)
Chiara (Luce) Badano (d. 1990), 18 years old, Italy	74	(4)
David Okelo, Blessed, 17 years old, and Jildo Irwa, Blessed, 12 years old (d. 1918), Uganda	78	(3)
Faustino Perez-Manglano, Servant of God (d. 1963), 16 years old, Spain	81	(8)
Francisco Marto, Blessed (d. 1919), 11 years old, Portugal	89	(8)
Guido de Fontgalland, Servant of God (d. 1925), 12 years old, France	97	(2)
Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos, Servant of God (d. 1982), 19 years old, Brazil	99	(2)
Isidore Bakanja, Blessed (d. 1904), 14 years old, Africa	101	(7)
Jacinta Marto, Blessed (d. 1920), 9 years old, Portugal	108	(9)
Jose Sanchez del Rio, Servant of God, (d. 1928), 15 years old, Mexico	117	(3)
Joseph (Peppino) Ottone, Servant of God (d. 1940), 12 years old, Italy	120	(3)
Josephina Vilaseca, Servant of God (d. 1952), 12 years old, Spain	123	(2)
Laura Vicuna, Blessed (d. 1904), 13 years old, Chile/Argentina	125	(5)
Lorena D'Alexander, Servant of God (d. 1981), 16 years old, Italy	130	(3)
Maggiorino Vigolungo, Venerable (d. 1918), 14 years old, Italy	133	(3)
Mari Carmen Gonzalez-Valerio, Venerable (d. 1939), 9 years old, Spain	136	(8)
Maria Carmelina Leone, Venerable (d. 1940), 17 years old, Sicily	144	(2)
Maria (Puma) a Columna Cimadevilla y Lopez-Doriga, Servant of God (d. 1962), 10 years old, Spain	146	(6)
Maria Cristina Ogier (d. 1974), 19 years old, Italy	152	(7)
Maria Goretti, Saint (d. 1902), 12 years old, Italy	159	(6)
Maria Lichtenegger, Servant of God (d. 1923), 17 years old, Austria	165	(2)
Maria Orsola Bussone, Servant of God (d. 1970), 15 years old, Italy	167	(3)
Montserrat Grases, Servant of God (d. 1959), 18 years old, Spain	170	(11)
Paula Renata Carboni, Venerable (d. 1927), 19 years old, Italy	181	(3)
Rachelina Ambrosini, Servant of God (d. 1941), 15 years old, Italy	184	(3)
Ramon Montero Navarro (d. 1945), 13 years old, Spain	187	(6)
Santos Franco Sanchez (d. 1954), 11 years old, Spain	193	(7)
Silvio Dissegna, Servant of God (d. 1979), 12 years old, Italy	200	(4)
Stephen Kaszap, Servant of God (d. 1935), 19 years old, Hungary	204	(6)
Zeffirino (Cefferino) Namuncura, Venerable (d. 1905), 19 years old, Argentina	210	(5)
Index of Saintly Youth	215	(5)
Selected Bibliography	220