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Antonietta Meo (15 December 1930 – 3 July 1937), nicknamed "Nennolina", was an Italian girl who died of osteosarcoma. Currently, she is the youngest person the Catholic Church has considered to beatify her.
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Antonietta Meo (15 December 1930 – 3 July 1937), nicknamed "Nennolina", was an Italian girl who died of osteosarcoma. Currently, she is the youngest person the Catholic Church has considered to beatify her.
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Life and death Meo was born as the second daughter of Michele and Maria Meo, an upper middle class household in Rome, and had an older sister named Margherita. She attended Catholic schools as an active, charismatic girl who led playmates in many games even after falling ill, being well-liked for her kindness. Her teachers said she stood out because of her charm, humor, and joyful personality. Meo was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at five after she fell and injured her knee, and the injury didn't heal. When her leg had to be amputated, she bore the ordeal "cheerfully." She received an artificial leg, letting her keep playing with other children. Catholic theologians have called her a "mystic" because the six-year-old wrote "extraordinary" letters to Jesus Christ in her last months. "Dear baby Jesus, you are holy, you are good," she wrote in one of the letters. "Help me, grant me your grace and give me back my leg. If you don't want to, then may your will be done." At first, she dictated letters to her mother; later, she wrote poems and letters herself and left each at the foot of her crucifix. One letter said partially, "Dear Jesus, I…
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Canonization efforts Before 1981, the Roman Congregation for Saints required that a candidate for sainthood reach some level of maturity. In 1981, this rule was relaxed by the Pope. The Congregation explained that "it is possible to speak of a human being being precocious in their sense of good and evil". The Catholic Church commemorates the Holy Innocents as the first martyrs. The youngest saints canonized in modern times, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, became the two youngest non-martyred Catholic saints in 2017. The next-youngest modern saint, Maria Goretti, died in 1902 at age eleven and was canonized in 1950 as a virgin and martyr. Efforts to promote the recognition of Nennolina as a Saint began soon after her death. Her case went to the Roman Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 23 May 1972. Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree on 17 December 2007, recognizing the girl's heroic virtues and approving the opening of the procedure leading to beatification. A woman in Indiana has already attributed one of two necessary miracles to Nennolina, claiming she became Hepatitis C-free after invoking the girl's help in prayer.