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Francesca Lancellotti
Venerable Francesca Lancellotti Zotta (7 July 1917 – 4 September 2008) was an Italian farmer and layperson known for her faithfulness and generosity to the poor. Pope Francis declared Lancellotti a Servant of God in 2015. He later declared her venerable in 2023. Biography Francesca Lancellotti was born on 7 July 1917 in Oppido Lucano, Potenza. She was baptized on 15 August, confirmed on 3 June 1921, and, in 1925, received the Eucharist for the first time. Lancellotti attended school until the second grade, dropping out to work in the fields. Since a young age, Lancellotti was very devout in prayer, frequently visiting the shrine of Our Lady of Purity at the Sanctuary of Belvedere nearby. She wanted to become a nun, but her father persuaded her to get married instead. Lancellotti eventually married Faustino Zotta, a farmer and saddler, on 10 October 1938 after three years of engagement. They had two children together. Lancellotti and her husband started a small business sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Venerable
''The Venerable'' often shortened to Venerable is a style, title, or epithet used in some Christianity, Christian churches. The title is often accorded to holy persons for their spiritual perfection and wisdom. Catholic In the Catholic Church, after a deceased Catholic has been declared a servant of God by a Bishop (Catholic Church), bishop and proposed for beatification by the pope, such a servant of God may next be declared venerable ("heroic virtue, heroic in virtue") during the investigation and process leading to possible canonization as a saint. A declaration that a person is venerable is not a pronouncement of their presence in Heaven. The pronouncement means it is considered likely that they are in heaven, but it is possible the person could still be in purgatory. Before one is considered venerable, one must be declared by a proclamation, approved by the pope, to have lived a life that was "heroic in virtue" (the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primavalle
Primavalle is the 27th of Rome, identified by the initials Q. XXVII. It is part of the Municipio XIV. History Thanks to several archaeological discoveries, the first settlements in the area can be dated back to 1st century BC: a structure of that period, that was part of a thermal bath, was found between Via Pietro Bembo and Via Pietro Gasparri, in the little valley where the ''Fosso della Favara'' used to flow; and in 1912 a big dolium was discovered during the broadening of Via della Pineta Sacchetti. In the area where is now located the Agostino Gemelli University Policlinic a villa or a farm should have existed, as during the refurbishment of an adjoining plot of land tufa and travertine blocks have been found. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the area was used for cultivation and was largely uninhabited, forming part of the vast Agro Romano, with scattered huts and buildings. In the Middle Age, the area was comprised within the vast estate called ''Casalia'' or ''Casali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Servants Of God
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21st-century Venerated Christians
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2008 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the List of years, main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * :Deaths by year, Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year Lists of deaths by year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million (equivalent to $ million in ). * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 – WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. * January 26 – The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo De Donatis
Angelo De Donatis (born 4 January 1954) is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Major Penitentiary since 2024. He was Cardinal Vicar (officially Vicar General of His Holiness) and Archpriest of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran from 2017 to 2024. Prior to his appointment as Cardinal Vicar, De Donatis was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rome. Biography Angelo De Donatis was born on 4 January 1954 in Casarano, a ''comune'' in the Province of Lecce and the Italian region of Apulia. He attended the seminary of Taranto and the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary. While in Rome, he studied philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology in moral theology. Priestly ministry On 12 April 1980, De Donatis was ordained a priest in the Church of San Domenico in Casarano in the Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli by Bishop Antonio Rosario Mennonna. He then taught religion at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria Ai Monti
Santa Maria dei Monti (also known as Madonna dei Monti or Santa Maria ai Monti) is a cardinalatial titular church, located at 41 Via della Madonna dei Monti, at the intersection with Via dei Serpenti, in the rione Monti of Rome, Italy. The church is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. History Situated on the sloping terrain above the ancient forums of Rome, near the present Via Cavour, by the 14th century, a convent associated with the Clarissan order was located at or near the site. When these nuns abandoned the site to move to San Lorenzo in Panisperna, a frescoed 15th-century image of the ''Virgin and child with Saints Lawrence and Stephen'' was uncovered at their former monastery in 1580. Soon the icon was celebrated as miraculous, and became an object of popular veneration, and led Pope Gregory XIII to sponsor the construction of this church. The icon still is displayed over the high altar. A copy is taken in procession through the streets on 26 April each year. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cimitero Flaminio
The Cimitero Flaminio (also known as Cimitero di Prima Porta or Cimitero di Montebello) is a cemetery in Rome (Italy), outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare to the north, between the Via Flaminia and the Via Tiberina. History The cemetery was established in 1945 on a project by the architect Elena Luzzatto. Description With its extension of 140 hectares, it is the largest cemetery in Italy; it is crossed by 37 km of internal roads, on which vehicles and buses circulate. The graves are mainly mound tombs; many of them are arranged into buildings or constructions which, due to their shape, are called "semicircular". There are some distinct departments for the different religious denominations, as well as numerous common fields and a crematorium. It is considered a masterpiece of contemporary cemetery architecture. It houses the tombs of many famous personalities of Italian culture, art, entertainment, sport and politics of the last century. Within the cemetery rises a church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santo Spirito In Sassia
Church of the Holy Spirit in the Saxon District (Italian language, Italian: ''La chiesa di Santo Spirito in Sassia'') is a 12th-century Titular church, titular church in Rome, Italy. It is in ''Borgo Santo Spirito'', a street which got its name from the church, placed in the southern part of Rioni of Rome, Rione Borgo (rione of Rome), Borgo and has been connected since its foundation to the adjacent Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia. The current holder of the ''titulus'' is Cardinal-Deacon Dominique Mamberti. It has been the official sanctuary of Divine Mercy (Catholic devotion), Divine Mercy since 1994. History The church stands on the site of King Ine of Wessex's ''Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia, Schola Saxonum'', or "Saxon School", a charitable institution for Wessex, West Saxon pilgrims. According to Roger of Wendover, Ine founded the Schola Saxonum in AD 727. It included a hostel and a chapel dedicated to Santa Maria. In Middle Ages, mediaeval times a substantial numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital
The Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata in Rome (Italy) is one of the largest hospitals in central Italy; the current administrative designation refers to one of the largest and oldest hospitals in the city, commonly designated as San Giovanni hospital. History The ''Confraternita del SS. Salvatore'' The hospital of San Giovanni originates from the "Archconfraternity of the Holy Savior" (''Arciconfraternita del Santissimo Salvatore''), established to ensure protection and homage to the '' acheropoieton'' of the Saviour kept in the Sancta Sanctorum. Even before the 13th century "twelve optimate and principal gentlemen of Rome, called ''Ostiarii'', ''Porters'' or ''Recommended by the Holy Savior'' were established to guard it perpetually". The membership in the congregation – which also dealt with the administration of the assets, that were given to charity to fund the charitable works on behalf of the holy image – soon became hereditary among the "optimate and princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
