Maria Orsola Bussone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian saint
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Place of Birth: Vallo Torinese, Piedmont, Italy
About Maria Orsola Bussone
- Maria Orsola Bussone (2 October 1954 – 10 July 1970) was an Italian Roman Catholic and a member from the Focolare Movement.
- Bussone's involvement in her adolescence in parish activities led her to Catholic Action as well as to other movements that she served as an active participant; she learnt the guitar and liked sports and music which she engaged in with her close friends.
- But those who knew her attested to her deep spiritual desires which she found sated in the Focolore Movement that she first came into contact with in the late 1960s.
- Bussone desired to act as a vessel for the goodness of God and desired that He would "...
- use me as He wants".
- Bussone died in an accident in 1970 and there were immediate calls to launch a process for beatification due to the impact she had made on local communities.The cause for her beatification - which saw her declared as a Servant of God - commenced in mid-1997 under Pope John Paul II.
- On 18 March 2015 Pope Francis declared her to be Venerable after confirming her life of heroic virtue.
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