Aug
23
Saint Rose of Lima
Patron Saint of Peru, America and the Philippines. The first woman declared Saint of all the Americas. The liturgical feast of saint Rose of Lima is on August 23 from the calendar after the reform of the Council; Although held in many places August 30 (the former).
- Name
- Rosa (Femenino)
- Meaning
- Rosa, from Latín
- Other saints
- Other saints named Rosa
- Secular name
- Isabel Flores de Oliva
- Born
- April 20th 1586 en Lima, in current Peru
- Dead
- August 24th 1617 in Lima, in current Peru
- Process
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- Beatifiedel February 8th 1668 por Clement IX
- Canonized on April 12th 1671 by Clement X
- Celebration
- August 23rd