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Joaquina Vedruna

Birth name: Santa Joaquina de Vedruna

Also known as: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, vedruna

Place of birth:

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Birth date:

April 16, 1783 • Birth Sign: Aries

Death date:

August 28, 1854 (71 years old)

Short Bio:

Joaquima de Vedruna Vidal de Mas, CCV (or Joaquina, and Joaquina of Saint Francis of Assisi in religion; 16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854) was a Spanish Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity. First she married a nobleman despite her desire to become a nun though she and her husband both desired the religious life; the couple bore nine children but she and her children fled after Napoleon invaded the nation to which her husband remained to fight as a volunteer and later died

leaving her widowed but free to pursue her religious inclinations. Her canonisation was celebrated on 12 April 1959.

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