page_title: Antonietta Meo
section_title: Canonization efforts
hierarchical_section_title: Antonietta Meo / Canonization efforts
caption_attribution_description: Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome, Italy
context_page_description: Antonietta Meo was an Italian girl who may become the youngest person on the way to Sainthood who is a confessor ever canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
context_section_description: Efforts to make her a saint began soon after her death. Her case was referred to the Congregation for the Promulgation of Saints in May 1972. Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree on December 17, 2007, seventy years after her death, praising the girl's "heroic virtues" and giving approval for the process to begin to declare her a saint. Once the Pope recognizes a candidate's "heroic virtues", they are called a "Venerable Servant of God."   The process requires two approved miracles to first beatify her and then canonize her as a saint. One miracle has already been attributed to Antonietta. A woman in Indiana claimed that she was healed of Hepatitis C after praying to Antonietta.
  A shrine with relics of her life is in the Basilica Santa Croce, in Gerusalemme in Rome, the church where she was baptized and spent much of her time in meditation. Antonietta's body was moved inside the church in 1999.
caption: A shrine to Antonietta Meo is located at the Basilica Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome.
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