Since news broke last April that Pope Francis would canonize the "relative of all the poor," the idea that Zatti might become the patron saint of nurses began to spread across the country. Now, with the bishops' declaration, this patronage has been fulfilled.
A life dedicated to caring for the health of the poorest in the area of Viedma, in particular - and the district of Viedma along with the city of Carmen de Patagones, in general - propitiated this nomination for Salesian coadjutor Artemide Zatti.
In the Argentine Republic, according to data published in August 2020 by the Federal Observatory of Human Resources in Health, a body dependent on the nation's Ministry of Health, "nursing professionals represent a total of 234,527 people, which in relation to the country's population means 52.19 nurses per 10,000 inhabitants."
Artemide Zatti's historical photos can be accessed at the following link: https://www.zatti.org/media
The original photos are kept at the Bahía Blanca office of the Salesian Historical Archives of the Province of Southern Argentina (ARS).
