page_title: Virginia Centurione Bracelli
section_title: Sainthood
hierarchical_section_title: Virginia Centurione Bracelli / Sainthood
caption_attribution_description: English: The almost uncorrupted body of Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli, a Genoa XVI century woman.
context_page_description: Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli was an Italian Roman Catholic from Genoa. Her father was the Doge of Genoa and she had a short marriage due to being widowed in 1607.
context_section_description: The informative process for the canonization cause commenced on 28 April 1933 and finished its set business in 1957. Theologians approved all of her writings to be in line and respective of the faith in a decree dated 10 April 1959. Historians were tasked to assess whether the cause had obstacles that would impede it and make the process difficult. But the historians cleared it on 1 December 1971 and allowed for the cause to proceed.
  The formal introduction of the cause came on 7 January 1977 under Pope Paul VI in which she was accorded the title of Servant of God as the first official stage of the proceedings. An apostolic process was held after this while both processes were validated in Rome so that the Congregation for the Causes of Saints could commence their own investigation. Theologians approved the cause on 18 October 1983 while the C.C.S. approved it on 20 March 1984. On 7 April 1984 she was made Venerable when Pope John Paul II confirmed her heroic virtue.
  Bracelli was beatified on 22 September 1985 and was later canonized on 18 May 2003.
caption: The remains of Saint Virginia Centurione found to be incorrupt.
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