Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
1914-1939 20th century Feast day: April 22
Giving one's life so that the divided may be one, praying where one does not understand.
Who was Maria Gabriella Sagheddu?
A Sardinian shepherdess of blunt temperament, she entered a Trappist convent near Rome and offered her life for the unity of Christians after hearing the call to pray for it. She died of tuberculosis in fifteen months, at twenty-five.
In their own words
Lord Jesus, I love you, and I would love you greatly, love you for the whole world.
I feel the Lord wants something of me; I offer him everything.
I am wholly abandoned into the hands of the Lord, and I have gained much, very much by it.