Rome, Italy, Oct 3, 2010 / 12:21 pm
Anna Maria Adorni, in her life a mother, widow and consecrated religious, was beatified on Sunday. The 19th-century Italian blessed is remembered for her maternal charity to the needy, especially those in jail, and her constant prayer.
Archbishop Angelo Amato, the prefect of the Vatican's congregation for saints' causes, presided over the beatification liturgy in the cathedral of the Italian city of Parma.
In an article published in Saturday's edition of L'Osservatore Romano, the postulator for her cause for canonization, Fr. Guglielmo Camera, remembered how, despite many hardships, she did not give in to despair.
She was born in 1805 and at 39 years old, after her husband's passing and having suffered the early deaths of five of her six children, she took up a life of charity and relief for those in jail at her confessor's encouragement.