Dina Bosatta
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Blessed Dina Bosatta |
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27 May 1858 Pianello del Lario, Como, Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Died | 20 April 1887 (aged 28) Pianello del Lario, Como, Kingdom of Italy |
| Resting place | Sacred Heart Shrine, Como, Italy |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 21 April 1991, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 20 April |
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Blessed Dina Bosatta (27 May 1858 - 20 April 1887) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious (nun) who became a professed member of the Daughters of Mary religious congregation alongside her sister Marcellina. Bosatta became a nun in 1878 and assumed the religious name of "Chiara" and devoted her life to God and to the social welfare of neglected children and to the poor.
Bosatta co-founded - alongside her sister and Saint Luigi Guanella - the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence - and managed the order in her hometown and the surrounding areas. In her service to the poor she contracted tuberculosis which remained with her until her death in 1887.
Pope John Paul II presided over her beatification on 21 April 1991.
Dina Bosatta was born in 1858 in Como to Alessandro Bosatta and Rosa Mazzocchi - her father worked as a silk manufacturer who died in 1861 when she was but a toddler. She was the last of eleven siblings and one sister was Marcellina.
She studied with the Daughters of Charity at the age of thirteen in 1871; she also took work as a janitor around this time. She decided to consecrate her life to God and made the decision to become a nun so entered into the period of novitiate with the Canossians from 1871 to 1878; however she felt that their charism was not that of which she felt she was being called to and so left that congregation to pursue her vocation elsewhere. Despite this she was enthralled with their charism nonetheless and admired their spirit and strong dedication to their rules of life. Bosatta returned to her home and joined with her sister Marcellina and the two joined the Daughters of Mary that Father Carlo Copponi had established; Marcellina would later become the superior of the order. The pair also worked at a hospice to tend to neglected children and older people as well as teaching children.
The pair coordinated efforts at establishing a new religious congregation - the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence - alongside Saint Luigi Guanella. It was at this point that she took the religious name of "Chiara". She was professed as a nun on 27 October 1878.
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