Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
About Lindalva Justo de Oliveira
- Blessed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira (20 October 1953 - 9 April 1993) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic professed religious and a professed member of the Vincentian Sisters.
- Oliveira worked at a shelter where she was killed in 1993 after a man obsessed with her stabbed her 44 times when she refused his unwanted advances.Oliveira's beatification received the approval of Pope Benedict XVI who determined that she was killed "in defensum castitatis" - the defense of her vow for being chaste.
- She was beatified on 2 December 2007 in which Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided over on the behalf of the pope.
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