Dionisia de Santa Maria Mitas Talangpaz

Dionisia de Santa Maria Mitas Talangpaz y Pamintuan
co-founder, Augustinian Recollect Sisters
Born	12 March 1691 Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines
Died	12 October 1732 San Sebastian, Manila, Philippines
Honored in	Roman Catholic Church
Feast	12 October

Dionisia Talangpaz is a Filipino Roman Catholic figure. Along with her sister Cecilia Rosa De Jesus Talangpaz, she founded the "Beaterio de San Sebastian de Calumpang" (now the Congregation of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters), in 1719. The Augustinian Recollect Sisters is the second Filipino congregation for women religious founded in the Philippines, after the Religious of the Virgin Mary established by Venerable Ignacia del Espíritu Santo.

Life

Dionisia was born on March 12, 1691, in Calumpit, Bulacan to half-Kapampangan parents. Together with her younger sister Cecilia, they settled down near the shrine of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manila. Their devout life attracted the attention of the shrine's caretakers, the Augustinian Recollects, and in July 1725, the sisters received the habit of tertiaries and were gathered in a beaterium.

Beaterio de San Sebastian

They established the "Beaterio de San Sebastian de Calumpang". After years, they headed a congregation called "Augustinian Recollect Sisters."

Death

Dionisia died in 1732, a year after her sister Cecilia.

Servant of God

On 10 September 1999, the causes for beatification of the Talangpaz sisters was opened, bestowed with the "Nulla Osta" and thereby giving them the titles "Servants of God."

References

• Hagiographycircle Website
• Kapangpangans @ geocities
• Recoletas. org

Other Current and Possible Filipino Saints

Persondata
Name	Talangpaz, Dionisia
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Short description
Date of birth	12 March 1691
Place of birth	Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines
Date of death	12 October 1732
Place of death	San Sebastian, Manila, Philippines