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BLESSED AGOSTINA PETRANTONI

 

        Sr. Agostina was a member of a nursing order of nuns.  She was murdered by a violent patient in a tuberculosis ward after a life of service nursing the poor.  She forgave her killer as she died and was acclaimed a martyr.   

 

 

 

 

 

(08-03-10)

 

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