Jan
27
Saint Angela of Merici
She was born in 1474 in Italy and founded the first female religious community to educate girls. Orphaned was when he was still very girl, became a Franciscan tertiary and founded the community of sisters Ursulines in 1535, who are spread over many parts. A great leader of women was considered and they blessed her in 1807.
- Name
- Ángela (Femenino)
- Meaning
- Enviada, from Griego
- Celebrate
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People named Ángela use to celebrate 2-Aug:
Our Lady of the Angels - Other saints
- Other saints named Ángela
- Born
- en Desenzano, in current Italy
- Dead
- January 27th 1540 in Brescia, in current Italy
- Process
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- Canonized on 1807 by Pius VII
- Celebration
- January 27th
- Religious
- de la Tercera Orden Regular de San Francisco
Saint Angela Merici, Virgin, who first donned the habit of the third order of St. Francis and brought together several young women to instruct them in works of charity. Later, she instituted an order of women, called Saint Úrsula, in order to live a life of perfection in the world and teach the ways of the Lord to adolescent girls. She died in the city of Brescia, in Lombardy (today Italy). Roman martyrology