Santa Scorese
Italian student and Catholic activist (1968–1991)
Who they were
Santa Scorese (6 February 1968 – 16 March 1991) was an Italian student and Catholic activist, who was murdered for resisting harassment. As her beatification process has been opened, she is considered a servant of God by the Catholic Church.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
A cause for canonisation has been opened, which is what Servant of God means. Heroic virtue has not yet been declared and no miracle has been examined.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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 - Anna Kolesarova (papal address quoted there) — "la Serva di Dio Santa Scorese, di Bari, uccisa nel 1991 a 23 anni". Also santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91547.
- Wikidata Q3472743 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Santa Scorese (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.