Did not become a citizen
Entrance 1866
Excerpt from the newspaper "Washington Post", dated 08/26/2015:
The woman who would become Sister Blandina was born Rosa Maria Segale in 1850, in the small hillside village of Cicagna just north of Genoa. At age four, she and her family fled their revolution-ravaged home for Cincinnati, where a small Genoese community had already taken root. There, Rosa attended a secondary school run by the Sisters of Charity, and as a teenager she declared to her father that she would become one of them.
To her 1960s biographers, she was "the fastest nun in the West." To Italians, she is "the nun with spurs."
The case for canonizing the 19th century Italian-born nun, whose run-in with Old West outlaw Billy the Kid is the stuff of legend, was presented at a ceremonial "first inquiry" in Albuquerque on Tuesday. If approved, her name will be sent to the Vatican, where it'll head down the long (and somewhat secretive) path toward sainthood.
Entrance 1866
Excerpt from the newspaper "Washington Post", dated 08/26/2015:
The woman who would become Sister Blandina was born Rosa Maria Segale in 1850, in the small hillside village of Cicagna just north of Genoa. At age four, she and her family fled their revolution-ravaged home for Cincinnati, where a small Genoese community had already taken root. There, Rosa attended a secondary school run by the Sisters of Charity, and as a teenager she declared to her father that she would become one of them.
To her 1960s biographers, she was "the fastest nun in the West." To Italians, she is "the nun with spurs."
The case for canonizing the 19th century Italian-born nun, whose run-in with Old West outlaw Billy the Kid is the stuff of legend, was presented at a ceremonial "first inquiry" in Albuquerque on Tuesday. If approved, her name will be sent to the Vatican, where it'll head down the long (and somewhat secretive) path toward sainthood.
Did not become a citizen
Entrance 1866
Excerpt from the newspaper "Washington Post", dated 08/26/2015:
The woman who would become Sister Blandina was born Rosa Maria Segale in 1850, in the small hillside village of Cicagna just north of Genoa. At age four, she and her family fled their revolution-ravaged home for Cincinnati, where a small Genoese community had already taken root. There, Rosa attended a secondary school run by the Sisters of Charity, and as a teenager she declared to her father that she would become one of them.
To her 1960s biographers, she was "the fastest nun in the West." To Italians, she is "the nun with spurs."
The case for canonizing the 19th century Italian-born nun, whose run-in with Old West outlaw Billy the Kid is the stuff of legend, was presented at a ceremonial "first inquiry" in Albuquerque on Tuesday. If approved, her name will be sent to the Vatican, where it'll head down the long (and somewhat secretive) path toward sainthood.
Entrance 1866
Excerpt from the newspaper "Washington Post", dated 08/26/2015:
The woman who would become Sister Blandina was born Rosa Maria Segale in 1850, in the small hillside village of Cicagna just north of Genoa. At age four, she and her family fled their revolution-ravaged home for Cincinnati, where a small Genoese community had already taken root. There, Rosa attended a secondary school run by the Sisters of Charity, and as a teenager she declared to her father that she would become one of them.
To her 1960s biographers, she was "the fastest nun in the West." To Italians, she is "the nun with spurs."
The case for canonizing the 19th century Italian-born nun, whose run-in with Old West outlaw Billy the Kid is the stuff of legend, was presented at a ceremonial "first inquiry" in Albuquerque on Tuesday. If approved, her name will be sent to the Vatican, where it'll head down the long (and somewhat secretive) path toward sainthood.
