Maria Francesca dello Spirito Santo
Eleonora d’Este was born on the 2 nd of January 1643 in Modena (Italy). Her fortunate parents were Prince Francis I, Duke of Modena...
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Maria Giuseppe di Gesù (Honorina)
Honorina de Abreu was born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on February 18, 1882. She lost her mother at the age of 9. Young, beautiful and intelligent, Honorina shone in Rio in the society of that...
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Maria Giuseppina di Gesù Crocifisso
Giuseppina Catanea (Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified) was born in Naples on February 18, 1896. After commercial studies, in 1918 she entered the monastery of Sts Teresa and Joseph of the Discalced Carmelite nuns, built...
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Maria Immacolata della SS. Trinità (Mãezinha)
Maria Giselda Villela was born in 1909, in Maria da Fé, MG, Brazil. Fiery and restless, intelligent and stubborn, she wanted to mount a wild horse, which caused her to fall off onto the ground and,...
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Maria Isabella dell’Amore Misericordioso
María Isabel Zapata de Calatayud was born in Gandía (Valencia), Spain, on December 27, 1907. She lost her mother at the age of three and her father two years later. The Christian formation received from her...
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Maria Lucia del Cuore Immacolato (Lucia di Fatima)
Lucia Dos Santos, born in Portugal to a very humble family, was the recipient, together with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, of a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, in the locality of Cova...
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Maria Luisa Giuseppa del SS. Sacramento (Navarro)
Maria Luisa de la Peña Navarro was born on June 21, 1866 in Atotonilco El Alto (Jalisco), Mexico, into a family of wealthy landowners, of good manners and very charitable. At the age of 15, in...
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Maria Maravillas di Gesù
María Maravillas Pidal y Chico de Guzman, was born in Madrid on November 4, 1891. From childhood she wanted to consecrate herself to God and dedicated her youth to helping those in need. Attracted by the...
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Maria Mercede del Cuore di Gesù
Maria Mercedes of the Heart of Jesus was born in Barcelona on March 6, 1880, into a Christian family; one of her brothers was a priest. From childhood she attended the Sisters of the Company of...
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Maria Sagrario di San Luigi Gonzaga
Elvira was born in Lillo, Spain, on January 8, 1881, to Ricardo Moragas and Isabel Cantarero, the third of four children. Following in her father's footsteps she became the first woman in her country to obtain...
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Maria Teresa della SS. Trinità (Aycinena)
Maria Teresa de Jesus Anastasia Cayetana was born in Guatemala City on April 15, 1784, into the bosom of a wealthy family. She distributed all her possessions to follow Jesus in the consecrated life of the...
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Maria Teresa della SS. Trinità (Ysseldijk)
Teresa Ysseldijk was born on November 13, 1897, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, the daughter of a Catholic family full of faith. After a stay of 6 years in Ochtrup, Germany, where her father died, she lived...
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