Maria Christina was born and baptized in Seville (Spain) in July 1890. Her parents were called José and Elisa. The date of her first communion is unknown. On 24 January 1921, Cristina entered the convent of...
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Marianna Fontanella was born in Turin on 7th of January 1661 to the family of the Counts of Fontanella. Her mother came from the Tana di Chieri, «related in the second and third degree to Blessed...
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Giuseppina Operti was born in Turin (Italy) on November 16, 1871 into a wealthy family. She was tested by the death of her brother and father within three months. Together with her mother, she gave herself...
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The Venerable Servant of God, Maria Carmen of the Most Holy Trinity (Civil name: Carmen Caterina Bueno) was born in Itu, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, on November 25, 1898. Her parents were Teotônio...
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Barbara Avrillot had the merit of introducing the Carmelite reform of Saint Teresa of Avila to France. Born in Paris in 1566 to a noble family, she studied with the Minor Sisters of Humility of Our...
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Maria of the Conception was born on April 25, 1905 in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). She had everything you could want: wealth, comfort, influence in society... passionate about reading, cinema and sports. At the...
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María López de Rivas Martínez was born in Tartanedo (Spain) to a wealthy family, lost her father at the age of four and found herself heir to a large fortune. In 1577, when the reformer Teresa...
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She was born in Abellin (Nazareth) on January 5, 1846 to a Greek-Catholic family. She was baptized with the name Mariam. Orphaned at the age of two, she was adopted by her uncle with whom, in...
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She was born in Terni, Italy, on the 28th of January 1605, the third daughter of the nobleman Alessandro. At the age of twenty-one, together with her sister Lucia, she entered the recently founded monastery of...
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Henri Grialou (his secular name) was born into a modest mining family in Aveyron, in central France. Attracted by God from an early age, he wanted to be a priest. In the minor seminary he discovered...
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María Felicia Guggiari Echeverría, known as Chiquitunga (little one), was a young woman who lived in Paraguay in the first half of the twentieth century. She was born in Villarrica (Republic of Paraguay) on January 12,...
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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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