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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]
At the same time, it is important to protect the integrity of the mortal remains of Sister Wilhelmina to allow for a thorough investigation,” the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph said in a ...
The Catholic Church has more than 100 “incorruptible saints” who have been beatified or canonized, whose bodies have been entirely or partially immune to the natural decaying process years ...
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 ...
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 ...
Virginia Centurione Bracelli: 18 May 2003 St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City Maria De Mattias: 18 May 2003 St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City Ursula Ledóchowska: 18 May 2003 St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City Józef Sebastian Pelczar: 18 May 2003 St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City Daniel Comboni: 5 October 2003 St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City