Geritol Feast of St. Teresa of Jesus Jornet Ibars, August 26
This woman (besides being a SHOCKIN holy saint) is a cornucopia of religious orders!
Catholic On-Line says she was born in 1843 an dis the founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Little Sisters of the Poor |
Just one minute there buster, says Wikipedia:
Teresa Jornet e Ibars was the foundress of the Little Sisters of
the Abandoned Aged, better known as the Little Sisters of the Poor (not
to be confused with the congregation also called this, founded in France
by St. Jeanne Jugan).
St. Teresa felt a call to monastic life and applied to the Poor Claires, but there were anti-clerical laws in Spain at the time so she was rejected.
Poor Claires |
Not discouraged, she instead became a Carmelite Tertiary.
Carmelites (not Tertiaries) |
She founded her own order to help care for the aged of the area, and took the name of the founder of the Carmelites, St. Teresa of Jesus. When she died in 1897 her congregatoin ran 50 homes for the aged in Spain. Pope Pius XII beatified her in 1958 and she was declared a saint by Pope Paul VI in 1974. Her feast day is celebrated on August 26, the date of her death. And then they made a video.
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