in the fields of politics, economics, communication, interreligious and cultural dialogue. She felt that these “resurrections” came from the faithful love for Jesus forsaken amid pain and darkness. This was her last public message, concluding with: The last greeting After a long period (from September 2004) in which her health failed, at the beginning of February 2008, Chiara was admitted to the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. During her stay, she received a visit from the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, and a letter from Pope Benedict XVI. On March 13, 2008, since nothing more could be done for her medically, she was discharged and returned to her home in Rocca di Papa, where she peacefully died the next day, March 14, at the age of 88. Her funeral was celebrated in Rome, on March 18, at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Thousands of people packed the church and overflowed outside where large screens had been set up to allow them to follow the service. Civic leaders as well as prominent figures from the Catholic Church, many other Christian churches and other religions, attended and offered their testimony to her life. An eminent Thai Buddhist monk, Phara-Maha Thongratana, commented: “Now Chiara and her great Ideal are the legacies of the whole of humanity.” News of her funeral was reported internationally. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then-Secretary of State of the Vatican, read the letter from Pope Benedict XVI, who said among other things: On January 27, 2015, the cause for her beatification and canonization was opened with a message from Pope Francis which highlights its motivation: “to make known to the people of God the life and works of one who, by accepting the invitation of the Lord, has turned on a new light for the path to unity in the Church”. November 10, 2019, marked the end of the diocesan phase, with the cause being transferred to the Congregation of the Cause of Saints at the Vatican. Acknowledgments From civil institutions and heads of state UNESCO:1996 Prize for Peace Education, December 1996 Council of Europe:1998 Human Rights Prize, September 1998 Brazil: National Order of the Southern Cross, the Federal Republic of Brazil, presented by the President of the Republic, Fernando Henrique Cardoso,October 1998 Germany: Grand Merit Cross from the Federal Republic of Germany, presented by the President of the Republic, Johanne Rau, June 2000 Taiwan: Order