Maria Bertilla Boscardin was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was later canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Because of her difficult upbringing and devoted care for the neglected, she is recognized as a patron saint of the rejected and abused.

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1888-10-06

Canonized

May 11, 1961

Pope John XXIII

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