Maria Lorenza Longo
Founded the Capuchin Poor Clares
Feast: 21 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
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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- Wikidata Q1136820 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Maria Llorença Llong (CC BY-SA)
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