Colomba Gabriel
Polish religious (1858-1926)
Feast: 24 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Colomba Matylda Gabriel (3 May 1858 - 24 September 1926) Her religious name was Janina, and she was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic professed religious. She is the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Charity. Gabriel studied under the Order of Saint Benedict in Lviv and later became a Benedictine herself while dedicating herself to teaching at her old school before she was forced to relocate to Rome in 1900, where she founded her order and joined a Benedictine branch there.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q3683395 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Colomba Gabriel (CC BY-SA)
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