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The House of St Agostina Pietrantoni in Pozzaglia Sabina: where the patron saint of nurses grew up
Pozzaglia Sabina, a village in the Sabine mountains of the Rieti area, is the birthplace of Sant'Agostina Pietrantoni. The house where she grew up has now been turned into a museum. Livia Pietrantoni — her baptismal name — was the second of 11 children in a farming family, before becoming the patron saint of nurses.
A short life, an important story
Livia was born on March 27, 1864. In 1886, at the age of 22, she entered the house of the Sisters of Charity, and took the name Sister Agostina. She began working as a nurse at the Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome, in the tuberculosis ward. On November 13, 1894, a patient with a criminal record, who had already been expelled from the facility, attacked and stabbed her to death. She was 30 years old.
A saint from Pozzaglia
Pope Paul VI beatified her in 1972, and John Paul II proclaimed her a saint in 1999. She is the patron saint of nurses. Her remains are preserved in Pozzaglia Sabina, where the house in which she grew up, now a museum, is also located.
