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Also known as

• Clare
• Dina

Memorial

• 20 April

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Daughter of Alexander Bosatta and Rosa Mazzocchi. Her father was a silk manufacturer, and died when the girl was still young. She studied with the Daughters of Charity at age 13. Began a novitiate in the Canossians but felt that their charism was not what she was called to do. She returned home, and with her sister joined the Daughters of Mary and worked at a charity hospice, serving neglected elderly people and children. Teacher to the children at the hospice. Co-founded the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence with her sister and Saint Luigi Guanella; she took the name Chiara. Worked at the spiritual formation of the sisters.

Born

• 27 May 1858 in Pianello del Lario, Como, Italy as Dina Bosatta

Died

• 20 April 1887 in Pianello del Lario, Como, Italy of natural causes

Venerated

• 1 September 1988 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)

Beatified

• 21 April 1991 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Chiara Bosatta“. CatholicSaints.Info. 19 April 2024. Web. 3 May 2024. <>