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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).
Virginia Centurione Bracelli, founder of the congregation. The Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary (Latin: Sororum Dominae Nostrae a Refugio in Monte Calvario) are a religious congregation in Genoa, Italy. It was founded in 1631 [1] by Virginia Centurione Bracelli. [2]
“Incorruptibility” — when a body shows little or no signs of decay after death — was thought of as an indicator of holiness in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches for centuries.
6 March 1251 18 Italy: Viterbo: Heroic Virtues Religious, Third Order of Saint Francis: Jeanne d'Arc: 6 January 1412 30 May 1431 19 France: Rouen: Martyr in odium fidei: Cristobal, Juan and Antonio: ca. 1514-17 1527 and 1529 12-13 Mexico: Tlaxcala: Martyr in odium fidei: Stanisław Kostka: 28 October 1550 15 August 1568 17 Poland Italy: Rome ...
New evidence reopened the case of actress Natalie Wood’s 1981 drowning death, pointing to her husband, actor Robert Wagner, as a prime suspect. Two witnesses came forward, claiming Wood was ...
A Virginia father who allegedly left his 18-month-old boy unattended in the car for hours on Tuesday pulled his son’s body out of the car and then went out back and fatally shot himself ...
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 ...