Pope Francis proclaimed the first Uruguayan saint in history

Pope Francis proclaimed the first Uruguayan saint in history

The religious proclaimed saint was born on February 14, 1844 in the Italian town of Carmañola, in the province of Turin, in the northern region of Piemonte, but by choice she lived and developed her pastoral work in Uruguay, where she died on August 6 from 1904.

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Maria Francisca de Jesus Rubatto

“The Church greets you, Sister María Francisca de Jesús, founder of the Tertiary Capuchin Sisters of Loano… the first Blessed of Uruguay”, John Paul II had highlighted her in 1993 when he beatified her in Vatican Square.

In Uruguay, Mother Francisca chose the area of ​​La Teja, Belvedere, Paso de la Arena and Barra de Santa Lucía, where, according to the Church of the eastern country, she carried out social and pastoral work together with the workers who went to the slaughterhouse on Sunday mornings. tomorrow, taking the train at four in the morning with them.

Rubatto was made a Saint after the Vatican approved a miracle attributed to her intercession on March 24, 2000 in Colonia, Uruguay, when there was the unexplained recovery of a young man suffering from head trauma with severe subarachnoid hemorrhage, severe coma, intracranial hypertension and diffuse axonal damage.

Along with Rubatto, nine new saints were also proclaimed, including Charles de Foucauld, the French priest who was a missionary in the Algerian desert, and Tito Bradsma, a Carmelite priest murdered in a Nazi concentration camp.

Source: Ambito

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