Chiara Badano

Chiara Badano (October 29, 1971 – October 7, 1990) was an Italian woman who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. At age nine she joined the Focolare Movement and received the nickname "Luce" ("light") by the founder Chiara Lubich. When she was 16, she was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, a painful bone cancer. Chiara died from the cancer on October 7, 1990, after a two-year battle with the disease. She was beatified on September 25, 2010, at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome. Her feast day is celebrated on October 29.

Focolare Movement Chiara attended her first meeting of the Focolare Movement in September 1980; she was only 9 years old. This group, especially its founder Chiara Lubich, had a profound impact on Chiara's life. The group focused on the image of the forsaken Christ as a way to make it through difficult times.

While Chiara was a conscientious student, she struggled in school and even failed her first year of high school. On October 1, 2002, documents were transferred to the Roman Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, which has the responsibility of attesting by decree the heroicity of the virtues of a Servant of God. was a young man from Trieste who succumbed to terminal fulminant meningitis in 2001 in the capital city of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. as well as the canonical declaration of Andrea Bartole's return to health.

On July 3, 2008 Benedict XVI authorized Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, to decree that the Servant of God Chiara Badano be given the title Venerable. Later, the theological commission called it "miraculous" and attributed it to the intercession of Chiara Luce. This opened the way to the further progress of the cause of her beatification.

On December 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the miracle and signed the decree of beatification. Her feast day is celebrated on October 29.