Antonietta was diagnosed with bone cancer in her leg at the age of five, which resulted in the leg\'s amputation.
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The evidence of her holiness began shortly after the surgery when her father asked her if she was in pain and she told him, "Pain is like cloth: The stronger it is, the more it is worth." When she returned home, she began writing Letters to Jesus, Mary, God the Father, and many others, all dictated to her mother, since Antonietta was still learning to write.
Antonietta was diagnosed with bone cancer in her leg at the age of five, which resulted in the leg\'s amputation