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== Life ==
Angela Iacobellis was born in [[Rome]] on
She received her [[First Communion]] and [[Confirmation]] on
Iacobellis was a normal girl with her family, friends, and at school. However, according to Iacobellis's parents and those who knew her, her affinity for the Christian religion grew with age. She had a particular devotion to [[Saint Michael in the Catholic Church|Saint Michael the Archangel]].<ref name=volo/>
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She spent her summer holidays in the basilicas of [[Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi|Saint Francis]] and [[Clare of Assisi|Saint Clare]] in [[Assisi]], saints to whom she was particularly sympathetic. In these periods she frequented the convent of the [[Poor Clares]] and became friends with the nuns and the abbess.<ref name=volo/>
At the age of 11, Iacobellis developed [[leukemia]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-08|title=Storia della serva di Dio, Angela Iacobellis: l'angelo del Vomero|url=https://www.vocedinapoli.it/2016/04/08/storia-angela-iacobellis-miracoli/|access-date=2020-11-06|website=Voce di Napoli|language=it-IT}}</ref> For a long time, she was not informed about the severity of the disease, but she calmly and optimistically accepted the treatment when she was told that her illness, although treatable, was not curable. She consciously accepted God's will, expressing all herself in prayer and in conversation with
Her worsening leukemia made her detach herself a little by little from her life. The final phase was excruciating for her family, as she was passed from one clinical analysis to another, from one [[Blood transfusion|transfusion]] to another, with an [[intestinal obstruction]] that complicated the [[prognosis]].
The administration of [[oxygen]] did not improve the situation, and Iacobellis died around 10 p.m. on
== Cause of beatification and canonization ==
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