fellow nurse Cipriano Pezzini moved to Rome in 1858 where the two commenced work at the hospital of Santo Spirito. He worked alongside the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin for a brief period of time while in Rome. Monti became certified as a nurse with a diploma at the La Sapienza college. Pope Pius IX - on 4 March 1877 - blessed Monti's work and appointed him as its Superior General. This was a position that he held until his death. The pope desired Monti's order to be aggregated to the Capuchin order - since Monti worked with them for a brief period of time - but Cardinal Luigi Bilio sent a letter to Giovanni Bosco on the pope's behalf requesting that the Salesians of Don Bosco aggregate the order. Pius IX noted that Monti opposed this and so decided the order would not be aggregated at all. The religious left Rome in 1886 and moved to Saronno. In 1882 he met a Carthusian monk who came to see him at the hospital in Rome and at his request assumed care for his four parentless nephews; he opened a home for them at Saronno after he arrived there. Monti died on 1 October 1900 almost blind. His order received papal approval from Pope Pius X in 1904 and his remains were later relocated on 22 September 1940. Beatification The beatification process commenced in Milan in 1941 in an informative process that Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster opened and later concluded in 1950. The theologians approved his spiritual writings on 8 February 1963 while the Congregation for the Causes of Saints validated the process on 16 June 1989 and then received the Positio dossier in 1993. Theologians approved the cause on 13 June 2000 as did the C.C.S. on 6 February 2001 and it allowed for Pope John Paul II to confirm her heroic virtue and name her as Venerable on 24 April 2001. The process for a miracle spanned from 1964 until 1978 and the miracle in question involved the cure of Giovanni Luigi Iecle - who suffered from an intestinal condition - on 26 December 1961 in Bosa in Nuoro. This process was validated on 1 July 1994 and received the approval of a medical board on 21 February 2002. Theologians approved it as well on 18 October 2002 as did the C.C.S. on 21 January 2003. John Paul II