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Monday, August 23, 21st Week in Ordinary Time
ST. ROSA DE LIMA (Peru, 15816-1617), Dominican Lay Sister, Mystic, First Saint of the Americas
Born Isabel Flores de Oliva to Spanish parents, the future saint was baptized by the future St. Toribio de Mongrovejo, Archbishop of Lima. Pious and devout even as a girl, she was unmindful of her family's position and wealth and her own personal beauty. An admirer of Catherine of Siena, she imposed mortifications on herself, tended a garden and did fine embroidery from which she earned money to care for the poor. At age 20, she professed her vows in the Third Order of St. Dominic, and spent the remaining years of her short life in good deeds - caring for homeless children, the elderly and the sick - penance and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, experiencing many ecstatic visions. When she died, all of Lima turned oout for her funeral, and many miracles were soon attributed to her. She is venerated in Lima's Basilica of St. Dominic along with two other Lima saints, Martin de Porres (who had been her confessor) and Alonso Abad. She was beatified in 1667 and canonized in 1671.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/readings/082310.shtml
No OR today.
No Vatican bulletins today so far.
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