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Virginia Centurione was born on 2 April 1587 in Genoa and was of noble origins. She was the daughter of Giorgio Centurione (who was the Doge of Genoa from 1621 to 1623) and Lelia Spinola. [2] Despite her desire to live a cloistered life, she was forced into marriage to Gaspare Grimaldi Bracelli, who was a rich noble, on 10 December 1602. She ...
The body of Saint Virginia Centurione, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church. (April 2, 1587 – December 15, 1651). (April 2, 1587 – December 15, 1651). The body of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes with wax face and hand coverings, declared to appear incorrupt by a committee in 1909 (subsequent exhumations indicated corruption).
Giorgio Centurione's daughter, Virginia (1587—1651), later married to Gaspare Grimaldi Bracelli, founder of the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Monte Calvario, was sanctified by Pope John Paul II in 2003. Known as Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli, she started out in the building in Via Lomellini as a caregiver for poor girls ...
When nuns at a monastery in Gower, Mo., exhumed the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster to move it to a final resting place, they were reportedly surprised to find that her body showed few signs ...
It was founded in 1631 [1] by Virginia Centurione Bracelli. [2] Bracelli created a community which was dedicated to Our Lady of Refuge, but this was later split into two congregations: the Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary, and the Daughters of Our Lady on Mount Calvary.
Saint Date of Canonization Place of Canonization Luigi Scrosoppi [1] 10 June 2001 ... Virginia Centurione Bracelli: 18 May 2003 St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
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According to her biography on the Sister Clare and companions website, Crockett "entered the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother on August 11, 2001, at the age of 18." "She took her first ...