A six-year-old Italian girl could become one of the youngest Roman Catholics ever to be beatified. Pope Benedict XVI has approved what he called the “heroic virtues” of a six-year-old girl who died a year after losing a leg. The girl, Antonia Meo, from Rome, had one of her legs amputated in 1936 after the doctors found a malignant tumor. During the last year of her life the child, nicknamed “Nonnolina,” wrote more than 100 letters to Jesus, Mary, God the Father and the Holy Spirit. The letters revealed what Vatican officials called “a life of truly extraordinary mystical union.” In one of the letters the girl asks Jesus to give her leg back, but if He didn’t, she said that He would still have a place in her heart. Before beatification can take place, a miracle through her intercession must be certified.
