Leonella sgorbati biography samples

Italian religious sister

Leonella Sgorbati, born Rosa Maria Sgorbati, (9 December &#; 17 September ) was an Italianreligious sister of the Consolata Missionaries who served in the missions in both Kenya and in Somalia.^[1][2] She was murdered in Somalia not long after the Regensburg lecture of Pope Benedict XVI and after having worked on the continent for over three decades.^[3][4] Her main attention was on nursing and educating prospective nurses while she also tended to the needs of children in a children's hospital that she frequented.^[5][6][7]

In her cross was deposited in the San Bartolomeo all'Isola church.^[8] She was beatified on 26 May in Piacenza.^[9][2]

Life

Rosa Maria Sgorbati was born on 9 December in Gazzola near Piacenza as the last of three children to Carlo Sgorbati and Giovannina (called Teresa) Vigilini.

Her baptism was celebrated moments