Saint John Paul II beatified Luis Beltrame and María Corsini together. He said that “the path to holiness taken together, as a couple, is possible, beautiful, and extraordinarily fruitful.” «And it is fundamental for the good of the family, the Church, and society,” he added. saint's day Vatican.
The richness of faith and love of the spouses Luis and María Beltrame Quattrocchi is a demonstration of what the Second Vatican Council affirmed about the call of all the faithful to holiness. Specifying that spouses pursue this goal “propriam viam sequentes,” “following their own path” (Lumen gentium, 41).
“This precise indication of the Council is fully realized today,”, said the Polish Pope, “with the first beatification of a married couple.” At the Jubilee of Families on June 1, the Pope Leo XIV He referred to “holy marriages” and cited the Beltrames, Guerins, and Ulmas.
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Luigi was born in Catania, although he lived most of his life in Rome; Maria, on the other hand, was Florentine. They met in Rome around 1902, when he was 22 and she was 18. They were married on November 25, 1905, in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome. They had four children: Felipe, Estefanía, César, and Enriqueta, the latter born after a difficult and risky pregnancy for her mother, but both refused to terminate it for reasons of faith.
Among the married couples who have been declared saints are, in addition to Saint Mary and Saint Joseph, the parents of Jesus, Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, the parents of the Virgin Mary. Saints Priscilla and Aquila, collaborators of Saint Paul. Saint Isidore the Farmer and Saint Mary of the Head. Saints Celia Guerín and Luis Martín. Manuel Rodrigues Moura and his wife, and other married couples who were martyred on various continents.
The parents of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Louis Martin and Celia Guerin, were beatified on October 19, 2008, by Benedict XVI. They were canonized on October 18, 2015, by Pope Francis, in a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
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