Models of holiness and married life: couple's beatification spotlights marital sanctity.(Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 28, 2001| Author: Schaeffer-Duffy, Claire | Copyright information

Pope John Paul II's emphasis on marriage as a path to holiness came under the spotlight when he recently beatified an Italian couple, the first couple in history to be elevated together to the rank of "blessed."

In bestowing the status on Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi in October, the pope held them up as models of married Catholics who "lived an ordinary life in an extraordinary way."

Luigi and Maria, who died in 1951 and 1965 respectively, were marrie...

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