(ANS –
Pozzomaggiore, Italy – June 17) – On Saturday, May 15, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect
of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, beatified Edvige Carboni in
Pozzomaggiore, Sardinia, on behalf of the Holy Father. Miss Carboni was a
humble and strong woman with a “life imbued with God.” She lived a life of
manual work and service, in the family and toward many needy people she met, a
life filled with graces and extraordinary supernatural gifts.
Born in
Pozzomaggiore in Lombardy on May 3, 1880, she wanted to become a religious but had to stay
close to her sick mother. She spent a sober, recollected home life, alternating
household chores with moments of prayer. On July 14, 1911, the signs of the
Passion of Jesus appeared on her body. These and other mystical phenomena that
were attributed to her were investigated in a canonical process of 1925, which
she underwent with complete obedience. She then moved to Rome with the rest of
her family in 1938, just as World War II was about to explode.
She took
up residence in Rome, remaining until her death in 1952). Edvige belonged to
the Salesian parish of St. Mary Help of Christians on Via Tuscolana. There she
went almost every morning for Mass and Communion; there she prayed, usually in
the chapel of St. Anne; most of her ecstasies and prodigious events took place
there; on September 25, 1941, she became a Salesian Cooperator.
Very
devoted to the Madonna, who appeared to her several times, she received many
graces from her. Many were the saints of which she had apparitions,
particularly Don Bosco and Dominic Savio. In her diary there are 20 apparitions
of Don Bosco, often together with Mary Help of Christians or Savio. In these
apparitions Don Bosco gave her suggestions, invited her to be devout toward our
Lady, encouraged her in difficulties, asked her for prayers and sacrifices,
showed her the great good that the Salesians did, praising the holiness of many
of them, and invited her to love the Salesian Sisters.
Blessed Edvige died on Feb. 17, 1952.
Blessed Edvige died on Feb. 17, 1952.
Cardinal
Becciu said in the homily of the beatification rite: “Blessed Edvige embodies
the most beautiful virtues of the Sardinian woman of the time. And yet from her
experience, data emerge that make her witness more relevant than ever.... Her
simple and profound spiritual experience, marked by limitless charity,
boundless humility, and incessant prayer, is still a current model, because it
shows that even in a simple, ordinary life it is possible to experience a solid
communion with God and an apostolate characterized by a passion for wounded and
disadvantaged humanity.”
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