ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 31st of January WELCOME! BLESSED MARIE CHRISTINE OF SAVOY, QUEEN OF THE TWO SICILIES Marie Christine of Savoy Marie Christine was born at Cagliari, Sardinia, November 14, 1812; died at Naples, January 31, 1836 [some sources state that she passed away on January 21]. She was the daughter of Victor Emanuel I, King of Sardinia, and of Maria Teresa of Austria, niece of the Emperor Joseph II. She lost her father in 1824 and her mother at the beginning of the year 1832. Charles Albert, who succeeded to the throne of Sardinia, insisted upon her appearing at the court of Turin, and she married Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies (November 21, 1832). She died at the age of twenty-three, after having given birth fifteen days before to a son, Francesco-Maria-Leopold, Duke of Calabria. The renown of her virtues had been so great during her brief life, and after her death the graces obtained by her intercession were so n...