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Maria Bertilla Boscardin

Nun and nurse
Maria Bertilla Boscardin was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was later canonised a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Wikipedia
Born: October 6, 1888, Brendola, Italy
Died: October 20, 1922 (age 34 years), Treviso, Italy