Maria Consolata Betrone, baptised as Pierina Maria Betrone, commonly known as Consolata Betrone, was an Italian Catholic mystic and nun of the Franciscan Capuchin order.
19 Facts About Consolata Betrone
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Consolata Betrone was known for the intense propagation of the rosary, along with reputed apparitions by the Sacred Heart of Jesus and her guardian angel in 1916 during the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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Pierina Lorenzina Giovanna Betrone was the daughter of Pietro Betrone and Giuseppina Nirino, the owners of a bakery in Saluzzo and then managers of a restaurant in Airasco.
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Consolata Betrone joined the association of the Company of the Daughters of Mary in the parish of San Massimo in Turin.
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Consolata Betrone's reading of The Story of a Soul attracted her to Therese of Lisieux's "little way".
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On 26 January 1925, Consolata Betrone joined the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, but after a little over a year, she became convinced that this was not her calling.
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Consolata Betrone then enrolled in the Italian League of Teaching and became involved in the local Catholic Action group.
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Consolata Betrone tried a community founded by Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, but returned to her family in August 1928 and continued her work with "Catholic Action".
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On 28 February 1930, Betrone joined the Capuchin Poor Clares in Turin, taking the name Maria Consolata.
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Consolata Betrone served, among other duties, as cook and concierge.
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In 1938, Consolata Betrone was assigned to the new monastery of Moriondo not far from the Turin-Genoa railway.
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Lorenzo Sales, a Consolata Betrone Missionary, suggested she write a short autobiography.
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On 25 October 1945 Consolata Betrone was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and shortly thereafter left for a sanatorium.
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Consolata Betrone's condition being diagnosed as terminal, she returned to the monastery of Moriondo on 3 July 1946.
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Consolata Betrone died at the convent of Moriondo, in Testona, Italy at the age of forty-three on 18 July 1946.
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Consolata Betrone's remains rest in the monastery of the Sacred Heart in Moncalieri.
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Consolata Betrone is known for her prayer: "Jesus, Mary, I love you: Save souls".
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Consolata Betrone spent her life attempting to bring to perfection this Very Little Way.
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On 6 April 2019 Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decree recognising the heroic virtues of Consolata Betrone giving her the title Venerable.