Paula Frassinetti

Infobox Saint
name= Paula Frassinetti
birth_date= March 3, 1809
death_date= June 11, 1882
feast_day= June 11
venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place= Genoa, Italy
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titles= Foundress
beatified_date= June 8, 1930
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beatified_by= Pope Pius XI
canonized_date= March 11, 1984
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canonized_by= Pope John Paul II
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Paula Frassinetti is an Italian saint in the Roman Catholic Church and foundress of the Congregation St. Dorothea. Frassinetti began her religious work by joining her brother, who was a priest, in teaching and caring for the less fortunate in Quinto, Italy. [Jones p. 92] Soon other women joined her and in 1835, she created the The Sisters of Saint Dorothy, a religious order whose particular areas of concern in ministry are the poor, women and children. She died on June 11, 1882 after a bout with pneumonia following several strokes.cite web| url=http://saints.sqpn.com/saintp56.htm |title=Saint Paula Frassinetti |accessdate=2008-09-13]

Her body was found to be incorrupt in 1906.

She was canonized on March 11, 1984 by Pope John Paul II. [cite web| url=http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19840311_frassinetti_en.html |title=Paula Frassinetti |accessdate=2008-09-13]

ee also

Incorruptibility

Notes

References

*cite book | last=Jones |first=Kathleen |authorlink= | title=Butler's Lives of the Saints
year=2006 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group
location=New York ISBN 0860122557

External links

* [http://www.sistersofsaintdorothy.org/index.html Sisters of Saint Dorothy]
* [http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19840311_frassinetti_en.html Vatican Biography]