In Bordeaux, in France, saint Juana de Lestonnac, who, as a child, rejected the invitation and the efforts of his mother away from the Catholic Church and, on being widowed and after educating conveniently to their five children, founded the society of the daughters of our Lady, in imitation of the society of Jesus, for the Christian education of girls.
Celebration | 15 of May Saints of the day |
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Name |
Juana is a woman's name.
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Birth | on December 27, 1556 in Burdeos in current France Saints born in France |
Death | on February 2, 1640 in Burdeos in current France Saints dead in France |
Process |
Made venerable on year 1834
by pope Gregory XVI
Beatified on September 23, 1900
by pope Leo XIII
Canonized on May 15, 1949
by pope Pius XII
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