Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos country of citizenship Brazil
Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos (20 January 1901 – 8 January 1972) was a Brazilian nun and the founder of the Little Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate. She assumed the name of Maria Teresa of the Eucharistic Jesus after she had become a nun.
Pope Francis recognized her life of heroic virtue and proclaimed her to be Venerable on 3 April 2014.Life
Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos was born in 1901 in Brazil. She decided to consecrate herself to God and became a nun. She assumed the name of "Maria Teresa of the Eucharistic Jesus" after admittance.
She established the Little Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate with a focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary while catering to the needs of those who were underprivileged, ailing and poor.
She died in 1972.
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