at the age of 25, together with five other nuns...
she left Lucca to found a Passionist monastery in Mexico, a project that could not be realized because of the revolution. On January 13, 1916, together with two other Sisters she left Mexico City, because she felt called by the Lord to go to Spain.
For two years...
they resided at Lezama, a village a few kilometers from Bilbao, and then finally in 1918 moved to Deusto near Bilbao, where they founded the first Passionist monastery in Spain.
In 1935 she was called by the Sacred Congregation for Religious to assume the role of superior of the Passionist community of Lucca. During the five years that she held this position, she as a native of Lucca had the joy and honor to build the new Passionist monastery as well as the Shrine of her compatriot, St. Gemma Galgani in the area of the city known as 'Fuori Porta Elisa'.
She also prepared the celebrations for her canonization, which took place on May 2, 1940.
On July 15, 1941...
she left Lucca to return to Spain...
where, strengthened by an ardent love for the Passion of the Lord, and for the salvation and holiness of his people, she founded a monastery in Madrid. Here, in the Passionist monastery she founded, she died on February 10, 1960, shortly before her 72nd birthday.
~bron~
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