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Born
in the city of Cascante, Navarra, Spain on the 22nd of
March 1847. Since she was a child she honored herself by
her love to the Christian Doctrine. In 1866,
rejecting marriage, she did the vow of chastity. She founded in the city
of Madrid the institute of the
Religious of Mary Immaculate to look after the needs of the young servants girls: took the habit in
1876 and made her religious vows in 1878. Living
her life generously for the souls, she excelled in her
exemplary love for God and her brothers , and especially
to the poor and humble, a characteristic that she left
as an inheritance to her daughters. Her religious
family spread out and was confirmed by pontificial
authority. The
brief life of the Foundress ended in Madrid on the 26th
of December 1890.
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