Roman Catholic Saint. Pozzaglia Sabina born Olivia Pietrantoni was the second of eleven children born to a farming family. Working on the roads as a manual laborer by the tender age of eleven, Livia aimed to enter religious life and refused marriage proposals, to the extent that at twenty years of age she travelled to Rome where she was accepted by Sisters of Charity of Saint Jeanne Antide Thouret, receiving the religious name of Agostina. Sent to Santo Spirito Hospital of the city as a nurse immediately after having received the habit, she firstly served in the children's ward before passing to the adult's section. There, she contracted tuberculosis while assigned in the ward reserved for patients suffering from the same disease, she eventually recovered and resumed her duties. The climate is the adults' wards was not at all in favour of the presence of the nuns who often had to endure difficulties, insults, obscenity and obstacles of any kind. Professor Achille Ballori, director of the hospital, although being deputy grand master of the Freemasons and thus himself not quite in favour of the nuns' way of life, notified Sister Agostina on various occasions to be aware of the danger a certain convict named Giuseppe Romanelli, known in Rome as the 'Pippo er Ciocco', recovered for tuberculosis, could impose on her. Indeed Romanelli started harassing her continuously and gave a continuous turbulence to the hospital staff. Eventually expelled from the ward for his extreme misbehaviour, he threatened to take revenge on Sister Agostina, who in reality had nothing to do with it. Writing her in a note "Sister Agostina, you don't have more than one month of life, you will die killed by my own hands", he kept his word and while she was performing her duties one morning, he waited for her in a dark corridor leading to the pantry and stabbed her to death. Taking her last breath at the young age of thirty, Sister Agostina passed away forgiving her assassin. "Mother of mine, help me," were her last words. After performing an autopsy, the named Professor Ballori noted that there were no contractions of either nerves or heart that suggested any reaction observing that "Sister Agostina has allowed herself to be slaughtered like a lamb." Her funeral literally blocked Rome. The 'Messaggero' of November 16, 1894 stated that "never a more impressive spectacle was seen in Rome. From one o'clock in the afternoon the streets close to Santo Spirito and all the roads, from which it was believed that the funeral procession would pass, were crowded with people to the point of making the flow of traffic difficult". Thousands of people crowded the streets, kneeling before the corpse. Buried at the Campo Verano Cemetery, on February 3, 1941 her remains were transferred to the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity at the via di Santa Maria in Cosmedin. Then, on November 14, 2004, they were transported to her native Pozzaglia Sabina and reburied in the local parish church near the baptistry in which she was received into the Church back in 1864. Pope Paul VI beatified her on November 12, 1972 while Pope John Paul II declared her saint on April 18, 1999. The Italian Bishops' Conference named her patron saint of nurses in Italy on May 20, 2003. Her liturgical feast day is held on November 12.