RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Joaquina Vedruna de Mas

1783 - 1854

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Joaquima de Vedruna Vidal de Mas, CCV (or Joaquina, and Joaquina of Saint Francis of Assisi in religion; 16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854) was a Spanish Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity. First she married a nobleman despite her desire to become a nun though she and her husband both desired the religious life; the couple bore nine children but she and her children fled after Napoleon invaded the nation to which her husband remained to fight as a volunteer and later died leaving her widowed but free to pursue her religious inclinations. Her canonisation was celebrated on 12 April 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas is the 2,432nd most popular religious figure (down from 2,217th in 2019), the 1,206th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,199th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas ranks 2,432 out of 3,187. Before her are Pancras of Taormina, Navvab Safavi, Wulfhere of Mercia, Aidan of Lindisfarne, Tryphon of Constantinople, and Francesco Alidosi. After her are Benito Arias Montano, Georg von Kopp, Léon-Adolphe Amette, Pope Kedron of Alexandria, Lorenzo Cybo de Mari, and Lullus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas ranks 33. Before her are Cheung Po Tsai, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Erik Gustaf Geijer, Nadezhda Durova, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, and Guglielmo Pepe. After her are Pattimura, John Crawfurd, José de la Riva Agüero, Hannah Van Buren, Vicente Rocafuerte, and Giovanni Berchet. Among people deceased in 1854, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas ranks 42. Before her are Józef Chłopicki, Samuel Wilson, José María Vargas, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Philip Barker-Webb, and Émile Souvestre. After her are Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, Simón Rodríguez, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Juan Mora Fernández, Anton Pann, and Edward Forbes.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas ranks 1,206 out of 3,355. Before her are Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (1884), Pruden (1916), Marcos Alonso (1990), Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526), Soledad Miranda (1943), and Pascual de Andagoya (1495). After her are Sabicas (1912), José Celestino Mutis (1732), Ana Belén (1951), Eusebio Sacristán (1964), Marcelino García Toral (1965), and Juan Modesto (1906).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas ranks 93. Before her are Francisco Coll Guitart (1812), Carlos Amigo Vallejo (1934), Aquilino Bocos Merino (1938), Dominic of Silos (1000), Francis Solanus (1549), and Diego Gelmírez (1069). After her are Ricardo Blázquez (1942), José Manuel Estepa Llaurens (1926), Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (null), Arcadio Larraona Saralegui (1887), Jon Sobrino (1938), and Agustín García-Gasco Vicente (1931).

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