María del Refugio Aguilar y Torres

Life

Founder of the Congregation of the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament; she had a path of growth toward perfection that led her from a lay life, in which she was wife, mother, and widow, to religious consecration following the premature death of her husband, and finally to the founding of a new religious institute in which she held the office of superior.

Translated from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

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