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Evento musicale Chiquitunga

Piden rosarios para retablo de Chiquitunga

Pubblicazione intervista de La Nación

Intervista con i giornalisti dopo incontro con il Presidente del Paraguay

Intervista con Bruno Masi

Opera teatrale Chiquitunga

Notizia sul quotidiano El Pais

Articolo sul quotidiano La messa del Papa

Notizia dell'arrivo del reliquiario a Villarrica

Film-documento sulla vita della Chiquitunga

Video beatificazione

Video beatificazione 2

Video documento sulla vita della Chiquitunga

Video documento sulla vita della Chiquitunga 2

Intervista a madre Maria Teresa dello Spirito Santo

1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

Giuseppina Catanea (Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified) was born in Naples on February 18, 1896. After commercial studies, in 1918 she entered the monastery of Sts Teresa and Joseph of the Discalced Carmelite nuns, built on the hill of the Ponti Rossi, where her sister Antonietta had already entered.

Of delicate health, in 1912 she was struck by tuberculosis, paresis and spinal meningism, but ten years later she recovered, by touching a relic of St. Francis Xavier. It was the beginning of an apostolate that the «holy nun», as she was called, carried out throughout her life, welcoming sick people and people in search of spiritual comfort to the monastery.

Her self-denial continued uninterruptedly even when, at the age of fifty, she was confined to a wheelchair. In September 1945, she was elected prioress, holding that office until her death on March 14, 1948.

She was beatified in the Cathedral of Naples on June 1^st, 2008, during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI.

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 Suor Giuseppina di Gesù Crocifisso

1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

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 of Jesus was still alive, she entered the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites of Toledo.

She lived in the monastery of Toledo for the rest of his life, except for a brief period when she participated in the foundation of a Teresian Carmel in Cuerva. Initially she had humble duties, but was later appointed mistress of novices and then sub-prioress.

She was elected prioress, but because of accusations made against her by an envious nun, Sister Catherine of the Ascension, in front of the visitator, in 1600 she was deposed. In 1619, after nineteen years of ruthless and fierce persecution, Sister Catherine was reconciled with Mary of Jesus and died peacefully. Thus Mary of Jesus in 1620 was recognized as innocent and was unanimously re-elected in 1624.

The last ten years of her life were marked by illness: she died at the age of eighty years on September 13, 1640.

The beatification ceremony took place on November 14, 1976.

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