Background
Her father owned a car repair office and her mother was a basic tailor (a "sarta").
Her father owned a car repair office and her mother was a basic tailor (a "sarta").
Since her childhood she attended with great participation to the activities in her parish and could be present to several meetings of young Italian people in the General Movement, the young"s section of Focolare Movement.
On March 18, 2015, Pope Francis declared her a Venerable. Maria Orsola Bussone came from a family of blue collar workers. because that"s the only thing that"s worth in our life..".
During this stay a trivial incident (She died of an electrical discharge while she dried hair with a defective hair-dryer) provoked her death when she was only 15 years old. This happened precisely in the area of Cavallino-Treporti.
On 26 May 1996 Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini (Turin"s archbishop), opened a diocesan inquiry in order to begin a beatification process, that closed with a positive ending on 17 December 2000.
On 21 December 2000 the canonical trial was transferred to Vatican, to the section Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Postulator of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization is Doctor Waldery Hilgeman.
You quote Maria Orsola, a girl from the area of Lanzo that told to her parish priest: “I would even arrive to give my life, in order to make young people understand how beautiful is to love God!” And God, when She was sixteen years old took her as She had promised. Well, I notice that in this (religious) company of yours there is more than a defense: there is the choice to let grow one"s love towards God, in absolute terms, talking directly with God, accepting to make a gift of our own"s life….