page_title: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
section_title: Sainthood
hierarchical_section_title: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas / Sainthood
caption_attribution_description: Català: Urna que conté les restes de santa Joaquima de Vedruna a l'oratori del Mas Escorial de Vic. Deutsch: Urne mit den sterblichen Überresten der heiligen Joaquina Vedruna
context_page_description: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas - born Joaquima de Vedruna Vidal de Mas and in religious Joaquina of Saint Francis of Assisi - was a Spanish professed religious and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity. First she married to a nobleman despite her desire to become a nun though she and her husband both desired the religious life; the couple bore nine children but she and her children fled after Napoleon invaded the nation to which her husband remained to fight as a volunteer and later died leaving her widowed but free to pursue her religious inclinations.
  Her canonization as a saint was celebrated on 12 April 1959.
context_section_description: The sainthood cause commenced under Pope Benedict XV on 14 January 1920 in a move that titled her as a Servant of God while the confirmation of her model life of heroic virtue allowed for Pope Pius XI to title her as Venerable on 16 June 1935. The confirmation of two miracles attributed to her intercession saw Pope Pius XII preside over her beatification on 19 May 1940 and the confirmation of another two allowed for Pope John XXIII to canonize her on 12 April 1959 in Saint Peter's Basilica.
caption: Remains found to be incorrupt.
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