A teenager who hung out in coffee shops

“Chiara loved to hang out in coffee shops. She was great at tennis, swimming and mountain climbing.”

This is from a recent article in the Denver Catholic Register about an Italian teenager who died in 1990 of bone cancer at the age of 18: Chiara Luce Badano.

A normal teenager living in the last quarter of the 20th Century, she lived a holy life and died the same way.

Today, the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints declared authentic a miracle attributed to her intercession.

Expect an announcement of her beatification shortly.