Giuseppina "Pina" Suriano was born in 1915 in Partinico, a farming town near Palermo, Sicily. From the age of seven she was active in Catholic Action, a lay movement.
Giuseppina "Pina" Suriano was born in 1915 in Partinico, a farming town near Palermo, Sicily. From the age of seven she was active in Catholic Action, a lay movement. As an adult she served as its local secretary and led its youth branch, and in 1948 she started a parish association of young women.
She wanted to become a nun, but her parents would not allow it. Instead she lived a consecrated life at home, and with three friends she offered her life for priests. She developed severe rheumatoid arthritis and heart disease and died in 1950, aged thirty-five. She was beatified in 2004.
Giuseppina Suriano was beatified in 2004.