Clelia Barbieri

Clelia Barbieri ( born February 13, 1847 in Budrie di San Giovanni in Persiceto, Italy, † July 13, 1870 in Bologna, Italy) was a founder of the order and is revered in the Catholic Church as a saint.

Life

Clelia, make their mother, their father came from a poor family on the other hand, could not even finish elementary school and grew up in abject poverty. But her mother's upbringing made ​​up for the lack of education. From a young age prescribed Clelia is the everlasting prayer and taught the children of their parish catechism. In 1868 she exclaimed with three other companions, the Congregation Minime dell'Addolorata ( Little Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows ) to life. Supposedly she learned the stigmata. She died two years after the founding of their order, with only 22 years of tuberculosis. Considered the youngest foundress in church history.

Pope Paul VI. Clelia said on October 27, 1967 blessed. On April 9, 1989, by Pope John Paul II sainthood. Your Memorial Day in the liturgy is the 13th of July.

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