The beatification cause is being opened for Sister Clare Crockett, the young Irish nun who turned her back on a promising acting career for a religious life that ultimately led to her tragic death during an earthquake in South America.
Along with Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Derry-born native, who was only 33 years old when she died in a 2016 earthquake in Ecuador, joins a growing number of millennials on the road to sainthood, reportsAleteia. (Blessed Carlo is due to be canonised some time in 2025.) It means Irish Catholics may soon have another canonised saint among their ranks.
