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Juana Ysabel Lagrange Escobar

Venezuelan founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Servant of GodFull write-upVenezuela
Born
21 December 1855
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Died
29 April 1933
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Beatified
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not yet
Canonised
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not yet

Who they were

Caracas-born religious who founded the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Hagiography Circle dates the nulla osta to 7 May 2013 and the opening to November 2013.

The miracles

No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.

Why that counted as sanctity

Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, archbishop of Caracas, closed the diocesan informative process on her life, virtues and reputation for holiness in 2018; he recounts that he issued the edict announcing the cause in April 2012 and that the nihil obstat was requested from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 1 May 2012.

The cause

The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.

A miracle approved by the Holy See is needed for the next step. If you know the postulation’s own page, tell us and it will be added here.

Sources

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