Pope Francis stressed the “value of chastity” in the world during Angelus this Sunday (11) by emphasizing the canonization of Brazilian Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos at a ceremony in Minas Gerais the previous day.
“Yesterday in Barbacena, Brazil, Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos was canonized. This young woman was murdered at the age of 20 in 1982 for her hatred of religion for defending her dignity as a woman and the value of chastity. May Her heroic example is her heroic example, especially young people, who do this to faith and the Bible. It may encourage people to make a generous witness of devotion to ‘,” he told those in the Vatican.
He nevertheless asked the faithful to “a long round of applause” for the blessed new Catholic.
The young woman’s consecration ceremony brought together thousands of people in a celebration in Barbacena, chaired by the Holy See ambassador, Cardinal Emeritus of Aparecida (SP) Raymundo Damasceno Assis.
Campos was killed with 15 stab wounds after a man tried to rape her to take her virginity in Juiz de Fora, also in Minas Gerais. At that time he was highly devoted to the Catholic Church, was a student and was trying to study medicine.
Since his death was a martyrdom, there was no need to prove any miracle.
source: Noticias
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