CAUSE OPENED IN SAVONA FOR BEATIFICATION OF VERA GRITA, 'SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO'

On Sunday, the 10th of April 2022, at the Episcopal Seminary of Savona, the diocesan enquiry for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Vera Grita (1923-1969), Lay, Salesian Cooperator, primary school teacher and ‘voice’ of the group ‘Living Tabernacles’ was officially opened. The day saw the participation, both in physical presence and online, of various people belonging to the groups of the ‘Living Tabernacles’ and to the Salesian Family, in particular the Salesian Cooperators and the Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA).

In the morning, Doctor Lodovica Maria Zanet, collaborator of the General Postulation for the Causes of the Saints of the Salesian Family, presented the process that the Church follows for Beatification with its various phases and dynamics. She highlighted how the story of Vera Grita calls us to enter into profound harmony with a witness of littleness without allowing ourselves to be misled by the discretion. Vera knew how to live hidden because she learned to become a saint first before God's gaze rather than before the gaze of men. Hers was an extraordinary response (beautiful, rich, convincing) to the ordinary conditions of life.