Bruna Pellesi

Blessed Bruna Aldina Maria Pellesi (11 November 1917 – 1 December 1972) was an Italian nun. Pellesi assumed the religious name of "Maria Rosa of Jesus" and was a professed member of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Christ. She died in the Franciscan convent of Sassuolo at the age of 55.

Pellesi was beatified on 29 April 2007 after Pope Benedict XVI approved her beatification; Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided over it on the behalf of the pontiff.

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