Maria Maddalena Frescobaldi Capponi

Life

Lay faithful and mother of a family, founder of the Congregation of the Passionist Sisters of St. Paul of the Cross; she was a wife and mother and the founder of a religious community, and had a reputation as a "virtuous woman full of charity." Raised in a deeply religious family environment, she shared her Christian faith with her husband and showed particular devotion to the Eucharist, to Our Lady of Sorrows, and to Saint Joseph.

Translated from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

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