Agostina Livia Pietrantoni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAgostina Livia Pietrantoni
Italian saint
Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1864
Place of Birth: Pozzaglia Sabina, Lazio, Italy
Date of Death: 13-Nov-1894
Profession: nurse
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Agostina Livia Pietrantoni
- Saint Agostina Pietrantoni (27 March 1864 - 13 November 1894) - born Livia Pietrantoni - was an Italian professed religious and a nurse from the Thourets.
- Pietrantoni worked in the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome where she tended to ill victims in a tuberculosis ward before a patient murdered her in 1894.Her canonization was held on 18 April 1999 in Saint Peter's Square.
- The canonization cause opened on 14 December 1945 under Pope Pius XII - she was then made a Servant of God - while Pope Paul VI named her as Venerable on 19 September 1968 before he beatified her on 12 November 1972.
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