Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (born1971)

Chiara Badano

Italian Blessed

Chiara Badano was an Italian teenager who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. At age nine she joined the Focolare Movement and received the nickname "Luce" ("light") by the founder Chiara Lubich. When she was 16, she was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, a painful…