Blessed Chiara Badano (October 29 1971 – October 7 1990) was a young Italian teenager who is currently in the process of being pronounced a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. At age nine she joined the Focolare Movement and received the nickname Luce by the founder Chiara Lubich. When she was 16 she was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma a painful bone cancer. Chiara succumbed to the cancer on October 7 1990 after a two-year-long battle.
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