Mercedes de Jesús Molina
Mercedes de Jesús Molina y Ayala ( born February 20 or September 24, 1828 at Hacienda El Guayabo Baba, today's province of Los Ríos, † June 12, 1883 in Riobamba ) was a Christian humanitarian, mystic, missionary and founder of the order, the (adapted from Rose of Lima ) also called Rosa from Guayas.
She was born 1928 in Baba in the present province of Los Ríos, the daughter of landowners. ( My hometown was then part of the Department of Guayaquil Gran Colombia. ) When she was two years old, her mother moved to her father's death with her after Guayaquil. In 1841 the mother died. Mercedes de Jesús came back in 1849 of her marriage and the religious and social work focused particularly with orphans, but without entering a religious order. She lived until 1867 with her sister Maria in a house together before she moved overnight in a private orphanage, the one her aunts, the nun was operational. In their religion, she was heavily influenced by the model of 1950 canonized mystic Mariana de Jesús Paredes y Flores ( 1618-1645 ) to be published her in prayer. Already in her sister's house, she had often local orphanage children, especially young women, offered shelter; so lived in the 1860s, the 1992 and 2008 beatified, canonized Narcisa de Jesús Martillo in their household, and prayed with her.
1870 Mercedes de Jesús went into the Ecuadorian Amazon region to participate in the newly established mission station of Gualaquiza to the missionary work among the Shuar. The mission was subordinate to the superior of the Jesuits in Ecuador, Father Domingo García Bovo, whom she had met in Guayaquil. 1871, she returned from the Amazon lowlands and initially worked in Cuenca again as a helper and teacher in a company founded by her school for orphans. 1873 she founded in Riobamba, named after its religious role model Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Marianna of Jesus (Spanish Hermanas de Santa Mariana de Jesús ), which in turn resulted in a school she founded, that appeal to orphans and abandoned children, especially girls, turned. The Mercedes de Jesús Molina 1870 written statutes of the Order was made by the Vatican in 1948 officially.
On 1 February 1985, she was beatified by John Paul II. My name day is June 12th.