Blessed Chiara Badano - Geraldine Guadagno (text) and Loretta Rauschuber (Illustration)

by Geraldine Guadagno (text) and Loretta Rauschuber (Illustration)

For the first time, the life of Blessed Chiara Badano is narrated for a young audience, with beautiful illustrations showing the key moments of her spiritual journey. Everyone wants to be happy, but very few people learn the secrets to happiness. Chiara Badano discovered those secrets at a young age, and lived them every day. Even when she was stricken with illness, those simple secrets kept her happy, and made her happiness contagious. Chiara Badano's legacy lives on and has spread throughout the world, inspiring young and old to learn her secrets and to put them into practice. Counted among the blessed, she can show us how to be happy, and how to make others happy, too.

Beatified on September 25, 2010, Blessed Chiara Luce Badano's life continues to touch many other lives around the world, all because she learned the mysterious secrets of happiness, love and unity.