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Rose of Lima, TOSD (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 – 24 August 1617) (Latin: Rosa Limana, Spanish: Rosa de Lima) was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance [4] and her care of the poverty stricken of the city through her own private efforts.
La Macchina of Saint Rose. The process of Rose's canonization was opened in the year of her death by Pope Innocent IV, but was not definitively undertaken until 1457.. Originally buried in the small parish church of Santa Maria in Poggio located in Piazza della Crocetta in central Viterbo; in 1257 Pope Alexander IV ordered it moved to the monastery she had desired to enter, located a few ...
Rose Philippine Duchesne, RSCJ (French pronunciation: [ʁoz filipin dyʃɛn]; August 29, 1769 – November 18, 1852), [1] was a French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988. [2]
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]
Arnold, born in Brabant, the son of a certain Fulbertus [3] [4] was first a career soldier before settling at the Benedictine St. Medard's Abbey, Soissons, France.He spent his first three years as a hermit, but later rose to be abbot of the monastery.
Rose Venerini was born on February 9, 1659, in Viterbo, Italy, to her father, Goffredo, a famous and accomplished doctor who was originally from Castellone di Suasa, in the Marche region of Italy, and her mother, Marzia Zampichetti, [1] [3] who was "of an ancient family of Viterbo". [1] She had four siblings, Dominico, Maria Maddalena, Rosa ...
Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz, Pedro Calungsod; Ambassadors ...
Marie-Rose Durocher, SNJM (6 October 1811 – 6 October 1849) was a Canadian Catholic religious sister who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She was beatified in 1982. Early life