Maddalena Carini

Maddalena Carini (1 March 1917 – 26 January 1998) was an Italian Roman Catholic and the founder of the Famiglia dell'Ave Maria, an order to help handicapped children. Carini is best known for her miraculous cure in Lourdes from tuberculosis that she had suffered since she was a child – a miracle that received the approval of the Archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI. Cardini's cure in 1948 made her the first Italian woman who was cured at Lourdes and whose case was accepted as a miraculous healing.

Maddalena Carini

Maddalena Carini (1 March 1917 – 26 January 1998) was an Italian Roman Catholic and the founder of the Famiglia dell'Ave Maria, an order to help handicapped children. Carini is best known for her miraculous cure in Lourdes from tuberculosis that she had suffered since she was a child – a miracle that received the approval of the Archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI. Cardini's cure in 1948 made her the first Italian woman who was cured at Lourdes and whose case was accepted as a miraculous healing.