Jun 17

Saint Therese of Portugal

June 17th XIII century

Name
Therese (Femenino)
Secular name
Teresa de Borgoña y Barcelona
Born
en Coimbra, in current Portugal
Dead
June 18th 1250 in Lorvaô, in current Portugal
Process
Celebration
June 17th
Religious
de la Orden del Císter
Picture of Saint Therese of Portugal Fuente: wikimedia.org
Lorvão in Portugal, in saint Therese, who, being Queen of Leon and mother of three children, lost her husband embraced the regular life in a Monastery founded by herself, under the Cistercian discipline. Roman martyrology