Saintly Women of Modern Times

by Joan Carroll Cruz

Overview

Most female saints familiar to Catholics today belonged to religious orders and lived long ago. But a number of lesser-known women of more recent times have also achieved exemplary holiness as lay Christians who made an impact on the world. They serve as role models for women today who struggle with the difficulties of everyday life in secular surroundings. In Saintly Women of Modern Times, best-selling author Joan Carroll Cruz presents portraits of seventy-five Catholic women from the past century whose extraordinary holiness set them on the path to sainthood. Their circumstances varied widely: Some were poor farm girls, rag-pickers, or factory workers. Others grew up in luxury. Still others were middle-class stay-at-home housewives and mothers. They were poets and musicians, professors and political activists, doctors and nurses, teachers and social workers. Some seemed naturally pious, while others struggled more visibly to live a holy life. But all of them lived and died for the love of God and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895558626
Publisher:	TAN Books
Publication date:	04/24/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Joan Carroll Cruz is a native of New Orleans and is the educational product of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She attended grade school, high school and college under their tutelage. Mrs. Cruz has been a tertiary in the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order (Third Order) since 1968; for eight years she served as Mistress of Formation (Novice Mistress).

For her non-fiction books, Joan Carroll Cruz depended heavily on information received from foreign shrines, churches, convents and monasteries. Her books include The Incorruptibles, published in 1977; Desires of Thy Heart, a strongly Catholic-themed novel, also in 1977; Relics, published in 1983; Eucharistic Miracles in 1987; Secular Saints in 1989; Prayers and Heavenly Promises in 1990; Miraculous Images of Our Lady in 1993; Miraculous Images of Our Lord in 1995; Mysteries, Marvels, Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints in 1997; Angels & Devils in 1999; and Saints for the Sick in 2010.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	10
	Foreword	11
	Adele Bonolis, Servant of God	15
	Amata Cerretelli	19
	Angela (Aniela) Salawa, Blessed	26
	Anita Cantieri, Venerable	28
	Anna Maria Inguscio, Servant of God	39
	Armida Barelli, Servant of God	42
	Benedetta Bianchi, Venerable	44
	Carla Ronci, Venerable	50
	Carolina Bellandi Palladini, Servant of God	55
	Catherine de Hueck Doherty	59
	Cleonilde Guerra, Servant of God	62
	Concepta Bertoli, Servant of God	64
	Dorothy Day, Servant of God	67
	Edel Quinn, Venerable	75
	Elisabeth Leseur, Servant of God	82
	Elisabetta Tasca Serena, Servant of God	90
	Eurosia Fabris Barban, Servant of God	98
	Fiorella Bianchi, Servant of God	101
	Genoveffa De Troia, Venerable	102
	Gianna Beretta Molla, Blessed	104
	Hildegard Burjan, Servant of God	115
	Josefa Naval Girbes, Blessed	118
	Madeleine Delbrel, Servant of God	120
	Maria Aristea Ceccarelli, Servant of God	123
	Maria Carolina Scampone, Servant of God	129
	Maria Chiara Magro, Venerable	136
	Maria Corsini Quattrocchi, Blessed	137
	Maria de la Luz Camacho, Servant of God	141
	Maria Gioia, Venerable	146
	Maria Marchetta, Servant of God	148
	Marianna Biernacka, Blessed	151
	Marica Stankovik	154
	Martyred Women of the Spanish Persecution	157
	Amalia Abad Casasempere, Blessed
	Ana Maria Aranda Riera, Blessed
	Carmen Garcia Moyon, Blessed
	Consuelo Mella, Blessed
	Crescencia Valls Espi, Blessed
	Dolores Mella, Blessed
	Florence Caerols Martinez, Blessed
	Francisca Cuallado Baixauli, Blessed
	Herminia Martinez Amigo, Blessed
	Incarnation Gil Valls, Blessed
	Josefina Moscardo Montalva, Blessed
	Luisa Maria Frias Canizares, Blessed
	Maria del Olvida Noguera Albelda, Blessed
	Maria Climent Mateu, Blessed
	Maria Teresa Ferragud Roig, Blessed
	Maria Jorda Botella, Blessed
	Maria Luisa Montesinos Orduna, Blessed
	Maria of the Purification Vidal Shepherd, Blessed
	Maria del Carmen Viel Ferrando, Blessed
	Pilar Villalonga Villalba, Blessed
	Sofia Ximenez Ximenez, Blessed
	Tarsila Cordova Belda, Blessed
	Matilde Salem, Servant of God	162
	Natalia Tulasiewicz, Blessed	164
	Pauline Archer Vanier	166
	Pauline Marie Jaricot, Venerable	171
	Pierina Morosini, Blessed	179
	Praxedes Fernandez, Servant of God	184
	Rachel (Lina) Noceti, Servant of God	194
	Rosa Giovannetti, Servant of God	196
	Rose Prince	198
	Santa Scorese, Servant of God	203
	Santina Campana, Servant of God	207
	Satoko Kitahara, Servant of God	210
	Simona Tronci, Servant of God	217
	Teresa Bracco, Blessed	222
	Teresa Di Janni, Servant of God	224
	Teresa Ferdinandi, Servant of God	226
	Victoria Diez Bustos de Molina, Blessed	228
	Victorina Rivara-Perazzo, Servant of God	233
	Virginia Blanco, Servant of God	236
	Wiera (Ida) Francia	240
	Wilhelmina Ronconi	246
	Index of Women's Occupations and Difficulties of Life and Health	252
	Bibliography	258
	Index of Holy Women	262