Daniela Zanetta (15 December 1962 – 14 April 1986) was an Italian member of the Focolare Movement in the Roman Catholic Church. From her birth she suffered from a rare skin disease that weakened her over time and which would cause skin tears and blistering. Her condition also forced frequent visits to the hospital and blood transfusions. Zanetta tried to put her illness behind her (offering her sufferings to God) so that she could live a normal adolescent life with her friends and in her free time collaborated with her local parish. Zanetta (since 1973) worked with the Focolare Movement that she joined after being drawn to their charism and that of its founder, Chiara Lubich. Zanetta's beatification process commenced in late 2004, and she became titled as a Servant of God. The cause culminated on 23 March 2017 after Pope Francis acknowledged that she lived a life of heroic virtue and so named her as venerable. Life Daniela Zanetta was born in Maggiora in Novara on 15 December 1962 as the eldest of three children to the middle-class and devout Carlo Zanetta (1936/7-26.6.2017) and Lucia Villa. Her brothers born after her were Fabrizio (b. 1967) and Emanuele (c. 1973) and a paternal uncle was Gino. Zanetta was born nine months following her parents' marriage though upon her birth was hospitalized once the midwife noticed a strange mark on the infant's leg. The doctors diagnosed this as a rare skin condition that had been seen in Italian infants six times in the past in which not a lot was known about it. The doctors predicted that she would not last the week and so she was baptized at once before being placed with her mother in a quarantined area because it was believed that the infant could be infectious. In her childhood she was known for having achieved good results at school and was seen as a bright student. But in her fifth grade she suffered a hand and leg paralysis and the beginning of pyorrhea that required urgent treatment and also led to some of her teeth needing to be extracted. Zanetta served as a leader in a local parish group consisting of adolescents as she was at the time and also collaborated in other parish initiatives that included visiting ill children in hospital. Her free time was spent with her friends as she tried to put her condition