Maria Gabriella Sagheddu, O.C.S.O., was an Italian Trappistine nun, who was born in Sardinia in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata in 1939, at the age of 25. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1983. Because of her spiritual devotion to Christian unity, for which she had offered her life, she was declared a patron saint of the movement by the Catholic Church.
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17 March 1914 Dorgali, Sardinia, Kingdom of Italy
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23 April 1939 (aged 25)
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