death_date death_place birth_place feast_day venerated_in birth_date article_title name
01 october 1928 nepi , italy monte romano , italy september 17 roman catholic church february 17 , 1910 cecilia eusepi
 blessed cecilia eusepi
cecilia eusepi

blessed cecilia eusepi -lrb- february 17 , 1910 -- october 1 , 1928 -rrb- was an italian teenager who has been beatified by the roman catholic church .
she has been compared to thérèse of lisieux , whose book `` the story of a soul '' she read as a young girl , and strove to follow the little flower 's `` little way . ''
when she was already dying of tuberculosis , eusepi 's confessor instructed her to keep a diary of her own life , which was called `` story of a clown . ''
eusepi considered herself a `` little clown '' and wrote that it must be her extreme weakness that appealed to god .
eusepi was born in monte romano , italy , the youngest of eleven children and was sent to a convent school at age six .
when she was twelve , she joined the order of the servants of mary as a tertiary .
at age thirteen she received permission from the bishop to join the order as a postulant .
she studied at rome , pistoia and zara .
she had hoped to become a missionary , but her poor health prevented her from doing so and she returned home to nepi two years prior to her death .
during her final illness her religious practice was a comfort and she was frequently visited by members of catholic action and seminarians and priests who sometimes asked her for her opinion on their homilies .
she died singing hymns to the virgin mary , on the date that she had predicted she would die after having a dream about thérèse of lisieux .
people said her funeral was like the feast day of a saint .
eusepi was declared venerable by pope john paul ii on june 1 , 1987 , and beatified on june 17 , 2012 .
