Maria Ludovica De Angelis
Venerated Catholic woman from Italy
Feast: 25 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Maria Ludovica De Angelis (born Antonina De Angelis, 24 October 1880 – 25 February 1962) was an Italian religious sister of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy, established by Maria Giuseppa Rossello. Upon investiture into the congregation, she assumed the religious name Maria Ludovica. She initially served in Italy, but moved to Argentina where she devoted her time to children and the children's hospital in La Plata. She died there in 1962. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 2004.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 3 October 2004 (page for Carlo d'Austria) — The apostolic letter reproduced there names "Venerabiles Servi Dei...Maria Ludovica De Angelis" among the five beatified on 3 October 2004. Also santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92131 (died La Plata 25 February 1962, feast 25 Fe
- Wikidata Q739905 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Maria Ludovica De Angelis (CC BY-SA)
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