Matilde of the Sacred Heart
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Blessed Matilde del Sagrado Corazón Téllez Robles (30 May 1841 - 17 December 1902) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of the Church.
Biography
Matilde Telléz Robles was born on 30 May 1841 in Robledillo de la Vera, Spain, the second of four children to Félix Telléz Gomez and Basilea Robles Ruiz. They moved to Béjar in 1851.
As an adult, Matilde founded a religious institute dedicated to the Eucharistic adoration and caring for the sick and needy. Matilde opened a school in the Province of Badajoz after being offered a house there.
On 19 March 1884, Bishop Pedro Casas y Souto of Plasencia raised the Institute to a Religious Congregation of Diocesan Rite. In 1889, a new foundations was opened in Cáceres. Other foundations were later opened in Trujillo, Almendralejo, Los Santos de Maimona, Villaverde de Burguilios and in Béjar.
On 17 December 1902, Mother Matilde died after suffering from a stroke two days earlier.
Beatification
She was beatified on 21 March 2004 by Pope John Paul II.[1]
References
- ^ http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20040321_robles_en.html
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Heart, Matilde Of The Sacred |
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| Date of birth |
30 May 1841 |
| Place of birth |
Robledillo de la Vera, Spain |
| Date of death |
17 December 1902 |
| Place of death |
Spain |
Categories:
- 1841 births
- 1902 deaths
- Beatified people
- Deaths from stroke
- Founders of Roman Catholic religious communities
- Spanish Roman Catholic nuns
- Spanish Roman Catholic saints
- Spanish saints
- 20th-century venerated Christians
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