Allegra Kent [own] parents. She borrowed a neighbor's working papers and took a job at twelve. By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men". Born in Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She discovered music and dance at the age of 7 and enjoyed both, but she was 11 before she took her first ballet lesson. She had completely flat feet as a little girl and consulted a doctor, who prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. She then began
Gabriele Allegra From his early days, Allegra was viewed as a favorite son of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII said of him: The cause for Allegra's canonization was started in 1984 by Bishop John Wu in Hong Kong, 8 years after his death. He was declared Venerable by the Holy See in 1994, and the promulgation of a decree of one miracle attributed to Fr. Allegra, required to conclude the beatification process, was approved in 2002. His decree of beatification was promulgated by the Holy See on that same day, but the beatification ceremony, which was set for October 26 of