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Armida barelli

Blessed
Armida barelli

EN IT ES
EN IT ES

Blessed
Armida barelli

The beatification of Armida Barelli

PRESS RELEASE - Rome, February 20, 2021

Today Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decree concerning a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Armida Barelli. This act concludes the process that precedes the beatification rite whose date will be fixed later.

The announcement was received with great joy and gratitude for the Pontiff since Beatification and canonization committee of Armida Barelli together with many people who in Italy and around the world remember her and keep her legacy alive. The Committee brings together three of the realities that the next Blessed has helped to found with her incessant apostolate in favor of the Church and of Italian society:Italian Catholic Action (ACI), theSecular Institute of the Missionaries of the Kingship of Christ  (ISM) and theCatholic University of Sacred Heart (UCSC).

Il miracle attributed to the intercession of Armida Barelli happened at Prato. On May 5, 1989, Mrs. Alice Maggini, 65, was hit by a truck while traveling by bicycle and suffered a severe concussion. Doctors had predicted severe neurological consequences.

It was then that the lady's family invoked the intercession of the Servant of God: in a scientifically inexplicable way, Alice Maggini recovered completely and, without having suffered any consequences, continued her life in total autonomy until her death in 2012.

The Committee hopes that the path of holiness lived and witnessed by Armida Barelli, starting from an unshakable faith in the Sacred Heart, may it be of example need incoraggiamento for all those who in associative life, in the commitment of consecration in the world and in cultural and academic activity they try every day to contribute to the manifestation of the kingdom of God.

With his intense spiritual life and tireless organizational activity he was ahead of his time contributing to to open new paths for the role of women in the life of the Church and of society. Docile to the action of the Holy Spirit, he was able to face new challenges with extraordinary courage and to support prophetic works which still today reveal themselves to be rich in pastoral, social and cultural fruits.