Pope Beatifies a Married Couple for First Time
Pope John Paul II beatified a married couple for the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, putting Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi on the road to sainthood.
One of the couple’s two daughters became a nun, and both sons became priests. Born in the 1880s, the couple married in 1905 and spent their lives in Rome. Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi, who died in 1951, was a lawyer; his wife, who died in 1965, was a teacher and writer.
The couple were beatified as part of two days of “Celebration of the Family” at St. Peter’s Basilica.
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