| 词条 | Antonietta Meo |
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|name=Venerable Antonietta Meo |birth_date=December 15, 1930 |death_date={{death date and age|1937|07|03|1930|12|15}} |feast_day= |venerated_in= |image=Antonietta Meo.jpg |imagesize=180 px |birth_place=Italy |death_place=Italy }} Antonietta Meo (December 15, 1930 – July 3, 1937)[1] was an Italian girl who may become the youngest person on the way to Sainthood who is a confessor (not a martyr) ever canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Life and deathAntonietta was raised in an upper middle class household in Rome as the younger daughter of Michele and Maria Meo. She was nicknamed "Nennolina." She attended Catholic schools and stood out as an active, charismatic little girl who led her playmates in all their games, even after she became ill, and was popular with them because of her kindness. Her teachers said she was a child like other children, but stood out because of her personal charm and her sense of humor and the joyousness of her personality.[1] She was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, at the age of 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 was fitted with a heavy, artificial leg so she could keep playing with other youngsters. Catholic theologians have called her a "mystic" because the six-year-old wrote "extraordinary" letters to Jesus Christ in the last months of her life that displayed understanding and actions beyond the normal for a child of her age. "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."[2] At first she dictated letters to her mother; later she wrote poems and letters herself and left each at the foot of her crucifix. In another letter she wrote: "Dear Jesus, I love you very much. I want to abandon myself in your hands. I want to abandon myself in your arms. Do with me what you want. Help me with your grace. You help me, since without your grace, I am nothing."[3] She wrote or dictated more than 100 letters to Jesus or to the Virgin Mary, describing "holy visions" in many of them.[4] After Mass, people sometimes saw her approach the tabernacle and say, "Jesus, come and play with me!"[5] She insisted on writing a last letter to Jesus a few days before her death, even though it was interrupted when she had to vomit. In it, she asked Jesus to take care of everyone she loved, and asked for strength to bear her pain. She finished the letter with the words "Your little girl sends you a lot of kisses." She told her mother when it was time for her to die. "In a few hours, I will die, but I will not suffer anymore, and you shouldn't cry. I should have lived a few days longer, but Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus said, "it's enough!"[7] After the child's death, her mother had a vision of Antonietta in a glorified state that reassured her that the child was now in heaven. Canonization effortsA shrine with relics of her life is in the Basilica Santa Croce, in Gerusalemme in Rome, the church where she was baptized and spent much of her time in meditation. Antonietta's body was moved inside the church in 1999.[8] Other young saintsOther young people have been canonized as saints. Fourteen-year-old Saint Pancras was beheaded in 304 A.D. after he became a Christian, and Saint Ponticus was fifteen when he was thrown to the lions in 177 A.D. The youngest saint canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in modern times is Maria Goretti, who died in 1902 at age eleven and was canonized in 1950 as "virgin and martyr." The youngest saint not a martyr ever to be canonized is Domenico Savio, who studied for the priesthood but died of pleurisy at age fourteen in 1857. He was canonized in 1954.[2] The Vatican Congregation for Saints previously required that a candidate for sainthood reach some level of maturity. It relaxed those rules in 1981, and declared that "It is possible to speak of a human being being precocious in their sense of good and evil."[11] Fatima visionaries Jacinta and Francisco Marto, who died at the ages of nine and ten respectively in 1919 and 1920, were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000 and canonized on May 13, 2017, by Pope Francis. {{canonization}}Notes1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://nennolina.it/bio_index_EN.htm |title=Nennolina.it |publisher= |accessdate=6 October 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322022823/http://www.nennolina.it/bio_index_EN.htm |archivedate=22 March 2016 |df= }} 2. ^1 2 {{cite news | publisher=Daily Mail| title = Italian girl who died aged six is set to be made youngest ever saint by Vatican | work= "Daily Mail" | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=503253&in_page_id=1811| accessdate= February 19, 2008 | location=London | date=December 18, 2007}} 3. ^{{cite web | author=Alive!| year=2008| title = Child cancer victim could become youngest saint | work= "Alive!" | url=http://www.alive.ie/story1.php| accessdate= February 19, 2008| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080302001034/http://www.alive.ie/story1.php| archivedate= 2 March 2008 | deadurl= no}} 4. ^{{cite web|author=Angela E. Pometto |year=2006 |title=Walking off the map and into the Holy Land |work="Catholic Herald" |url=http://www.catholicherald.com/articles/06articles/santa%20croce.htm |accessdate=February 20, 2008 |df= }} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://deaconjohn1987.blogspot.com/|title=MARY, OUR MOTHER|author=Deacon John Giglio Jr|work=deaconjohn1987.blogspot.com|accessdate=18 September 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://nennolina.it/bio_sofferenza_EN.htm |title=Nennolina.it |publisher= |accessdate=6 October 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194340/http://nennolina.it/bio_sofferenza_EN.htm |archivedate=3 March 2016 |df= }} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://deaconjohn1987.blogspot.com/2008/02/children-of-medjugorje-february.html|title=MARY, OUR MOTHER: Children of Medjugorje February Newsletter|author=Deacon John Giglio Jr|work=deaconjohn1987.blogspot.com|accessdate=18 September 2015}} 8. ^1 2 Azionecattolica.it {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229130953/http://www.azionecattolica.it/FIAC/testimoni/beati_venerabili/nennolina |date=February 29, 2008 }} 9. ^Venerable Antonietta Meo {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209031658/http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cevang/p_missionary_works/infantia/documents/rc_ic_infantia_doc_20090324_boletin15p12_en.html |date=December 9, 2014 }}. PONTIFICIUM OPUS A SANCTA INFANTIA - Holy See 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ewtn.com/johnpaul2/cause/process.asp|title=The Process of Beatification and Canonization|work=ewtn.com|accessdate=18 September 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web | author=Catholic News Agency| year=2007| title = Italian six-year-old takes next step towards sainthood. | work= "Catholic News Agency" | url=http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11302| accessdate= February 19, 2008}} External links{{Portal|Biography}}
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