remained until the complete destruction of this church and its surrounding area by Allied bombing during the Second World War, on 2 March 1945, in which the parish priest and many townspeople died. The church and corresponding buildings were afterwards rebuilt, and reopened on 10 April 1954. The church was consecrated on 27 January 1956, with a new dedication to Saint Angela Merici, while the Parish of St. Afra was transferred to the neighboring Church of St. Eufemia. Merici was beatified in Rome on 30 April 1768, by Pope Clement XIII. She was later canonized on 24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII. Feast day Merici was not included in the 1570 Tridentine Calendar of Pope Pius V because she was not canonized until 1807. In 1861, her feast day was included in the Roman Calendar – not on the day of her death, 27 January, since this date was occupied by the feast day of Saint John Chrysostom, but instead on 31 May. In 1955, Pope Pius XII assigned this date to the new feast of the Queenship of Mary, and moved Merici's feast to 1 June. The celebration was ranked as a Double until 1960, when Pope John XXIII gave it the equivalent rank of Third-Class Feast. Lastly, in the major 1969 reform of the liturgy, Pope Paul VI moved the celebration, ranked as a Memorial, to the saint's day of death, 27 January. Dedications Parishes are dedicated to St. Angela Merici in Pacific Grove, California; Brea, California; Metairie, Louisiana; White Oak, Pennsylvania; Fairview Park, Ohio; Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Missouri City, Texas and Youngstown, Ohio. There are St. Angela Merici Parishes and Schools in Florissant, Missouri, The Bronx, New York; and Missouri City, Texas. St. Angela Merici Catholic School, Bradford, Ontario, Canada. St. Angela Merici Catholic School, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. St. Angela Merici Academy, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States. St. Angela Merici Catholic School, Chatham, Ontario. Canada St. Angela Merici Montessori School, Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines St. Angela's College, Cork, Ireland. St. Angela's Ursuline RA School Forest Gate, London, United Kingdom Merici College, Braddon, ACT, Australia. École St. Angela Merici, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. See also List of Catholic saints Incorruptibility Saint Angela Merici, patron saint archive Notes References Bibliography Q. Mazzonis, "The Impact of Renaissance Gender-Related Notions on the Female Experience of the Sacred: The Case of Angela Merici's Ursulines," in Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen Mangion (eds), Gender, Catholicism