Leonella Sgorbati, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian martyr
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Place of Birth: Gazzola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
About Leonella Sgorbati
- Blessed Leonella Sgorbati (9 December 1940 – 17 September 2006) - born Rosa Maria Sgorbati - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Consolata Mission Sisters who served in the missions in both Kenya and in Somalia.
- The religious was murdered there not long after controversial comments that Pope Benedict XVI had made concerning Islam and after having worked on the continent for over three decades.
- Her main attention was on nursing and educating prospective nurses while she also tended to the needs of children in a children's hospital that she frequented.In 2008 her cross was deposited in the San Bartolomeo all'Isola church.Her beatification received approval from Pope Francis on 8 November 2017 and she was beatified on 26 May 2018 in Piacenza.
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