Agostina Livia Pietrantoni


Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and saint (1864–1894)
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Agostina Pietrantoni born Livia Pietrantoni, was an Italian religious sister of the Sisters of Divine Charity. Pietrantoni worked as a nurse in the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome where she tended to ill victims in a tuberculosis ward before a patient murdered her in 1894. Her canonisation was celebrated on 18 April 1999 in Saint Peter’s Square.