{"id":1561,"date":"2007-12-18T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/18\/will-antonia-meo-become-the-youngest-non-martyr-saint\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:45:23","slug":"will-antonia-meo-become-the-youngest-non-martyr-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2007\/12\/18\/will-antonia-meo-become-the-youngest-non-martyr-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Antonia Meo Become the Youngest Non-Martyr Saint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Known by her nickname, Nennolina, Antonia was a young Catholic girl in 1930s Italy. She\u00a0had a great faith\u00a0which manifested itself\u00a0in some unusual ways (including letters she wrote to\u00a0God and\u00a0the Theotokos).\u00a0At the age of five and a half, she\u00a0had one of her legs amputated because of a malignant tumor.<\/p>\n<p>It was too little, too late, and she died at the age of six.\u00a0During that time she showed great, \u201cheroic virtue,\u201d which is now being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/12\/17\/europe\/EU-GEN-Vatican-Heroic-Girl.php#end_main\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recognized by the Vatican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0hope her letters will one day be released in book form. After all, when Jesus said\u00a0we\u00a0must become like children, what better example could there be than this young, girl who had great love for Christ? \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known by her nickname, Nennolina, Antonia was a young Catholic girl in 1930s Italy. She\u00a0had a great faith\u00a0which manifested itself\u00a0in some unusual ways (including letters she wrote to\u00a0God and\u00a0the Theotokos).\u00a0At the age of five and a half, she\u00a0had one of her legs amputated because of a malignant tumor. 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