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Blessed Mary Assunta

Blessed Mary Assunta Also known as

Assunta Maria Liberta
Maria Assunta Pallotta

7 April

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Daughter of Luigi Pallotta and Eufrasia Casali. Baptized on 21 August 1878. She grew up in Castello di Croce, Marches of Ancona, Italy. Confirmed on 7 July 1880. In 1884 she briefly attended school, learning to read and write, but she received no further formal education. On 2 March 1897 she suddenly received an understanding of her call to religious life. Made her first vows with the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in Rome, Italy on 5 May 1898. Moved to Florence, Italy on 3 January 1902. On 1 January 1904 she put in a request to go to China to work at a leper colony; her request was approved and she left Naples, Italy for China on 19 March 1904, arriving in Tong-Eul-Keou on 18 June 1904. She served several months as a cook in the orphanage there. In early April 1905 a wave of deadly typhus ran through the house. When one of her sisters appeared about to die, Sister Mary Assunta asked that she be taken instead; her prayer was granted.

Born

20 August 1878 as Assunta Maria Liberta

Died

7 April 1905 at Tong-Eul-Keou, China of typhus
upon her death, a mysterious perfume filled the house for three days
body found intact on 23 April 1913, but the burial robes were disintegrating
thirty men carried the coffin 28 miles to its current resting place at Tai Yan-Fou, China