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Maria Lorenza Longo

Founded the Capuchin Poor Clares

BlessedCrown of AragonPoor Clares

Feast: 21 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1463
Died
1542
Beatified
9 October 2021
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Canonised
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Who they were

Maria Llorença Requenses Llong (Italian: Maria Lorenza Longo; 1463 – 21 December 1539) was a Spanish nun and the founder of the order of the Capuchin Poor Clares. Llong founded the Ospedale degli Incurabili Santa Maria del Popolo in Naples which received numerous papal privileges from Pope Leo X and Pope Adrian VI.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

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