Agostina Livia Pietrantoni

Augustina Pietra Toni (birth name Livia Pietra Toni ) ( born March 27, 1864 in Pozzaglia Sabina in the province of Rieti, Italy, † November 13, 1894 in Rome) was an Italian nun and is revered in the Catholic Church as a saint.

Life

Livia, who came from a poor and Christian family joined on March 23, 1886 21 years, the " Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida de Thouret " and took the name Augustina (Latin The Exalted ) to. Within the religious community, she worked as a nurse of tuberculosis patients in the hospital Santo Spirito in Rome. As a 30 -year-old she was murdered by the recently discharged patients Giuseppe Romanelli. She was buried in the Campo Verano.

Pope Paul VI. said Augustina 1972 and blessed on 18 April 1999 he was her canonization by Pope John Paul II, your feast day is November 13.