29 April 1957(1957-04-29) (aged 52) La Spezia, Italy
Resting place
La Spezia Cathedral, Italy
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Roman Catholic Church
Beatified
10 June 2017, Piazza Europa, La Spezia, Italy by Cardinal Angelo Amato
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29 April
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Itala Mela (28 August 1904 – 29 April 1957) was an Italian Roman Catholic who was a lapsed Christian until a sudden conversion of faith in the 1920s and as a Benedictine oblate virgin assumed the name of "Maria della Trinità". Mela became one of the well-known mystics of the Church during her life and indeed following her death. She also penned a range of theological writings that focused on the Trinity, which she deemed was integral to the Christian faith.
Mela was proclaimed to be Venerable on 12 June 2014 after Pope Francis approved her life of heroic virtue.[1] On 14 December 2015 the pope also approved a miracle attributed to her intercession which allowed for her beatification to take place.[1] Mela was beatified in La Spezia on 10 June 2017 and Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the celebration on the pope's behalf; the miracle in question concerned the revival of an Italian newborn, whose body was in state of clinical brain death.[2]
^ ab"Venerable Itala Mela". Saints SQPN. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
^"Beatificazione Itala Mela: card. Amato, "il mondo ha bisogno di laici santi, che fecondano la società" – AgenSIR". 10 June 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
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