BLESSED MARIA GABRIELLA SAGHEDDU was born in 1914 in Sardinia. She became deeply pious after the death of her sister and entered the Trappist Monastry of Grottaferatta in 1934. Here she became devoted to the cause of Christian unity and in 1938 offered her life as a spiritual sacrifice. Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu died fifteen months later of tuberculosis and was beatified in 1983.