2023-10-21 02:00:00
First Colombian at the altars
Mother Laura was canonized on May 12, 2013 in Vatican City. The canonization ceremony was attended by an important delegation of Colombian citizens, led by the president of Colombia at the time, Juan Manuel Santos, and by the doctor Carlos Eduardo Restrepo, miraculously cured of a terminal illness through the saint’s intercession. During the ceremony, Pope Francis said:
“This first saint born in the beautiful land of Colombia teaches us to be generous with God, to not live the faith alone—as if it were possible to live the faith in isolation—but to communicate it, to radiate the joy of the Gospel with the word and the testimony of life wherever we find ourselves… It teaches us to see the face of Jesus reflected in the other, to overcome indifference and individualism… it teaches us to welcome everyone without prejudice, without discrimination, without reticence, with authentic love, giving them the “Better of ourselves and, above all, sharing with them the most valuable thing we have… Christ and his Gospel.”
The remains of the Mother rest in the Sanctuary of Light, located in the city of Medellín.
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