Dionisia De Santa Maria Mitas Talangpaz

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name=Dionisia de Santa Maria Mitas Talangpaz
birth_date=12 March 1691
death_date=12 October 1732
feast_day=12 October
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place=Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines flagicon|Philippines
death_place=San Sebastian, Manila, Philippines flagicon|Philippines
titles=cofounder, Augustinian Recollect Sisters
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Dionisia Talangpaz is a Filipino Roman Catholic figure. She is one of the foundresses of the "Beaterio de San Sebastian de Calumpang" (now the Congregation of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters, in 1719. Her beatification process is underway with protocol number: 2302

Life

Dionisia was born on March 12, 1691,in Calumpit, Bulacan to half-Kapampangan parents. Together with her sister Cecilia Rosa De Jesus Talangpaz, they settled down near the shrine of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manila. Their devout life attracted the attention of the Augustinian Recollects who were taking care of the shrine and by 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

In 1732, Dionisia died a year after her sister, Cecilia, who passed away in 1731.

ervant of God

On 10 September, 1999, she (together with her sister) had their causes for beatification opened, bestowied with the go-signal "Nulla Osta" and therebygiving them the titles "Servants of God."

References

* [http://hagiographycircle.com/year/1732.htm Hagiographycircle Website ]
* [http://www.geocities.com/kapampanganx/s7_3.html Kapangpangans @ geocities ]
* [http://www.recoletas.org/content/aboutus/history.asp Recoletas. org]

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