page_title: Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Blessed Photos of Servants of God Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz (1691–1732)] and Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz (1693–1731) in Saint John the Baptist Church, Calumpit, Bulacan built in 1572, Gen. Tanaka’s Japanese Imperial Army last battlefield - Consecrated on February 19, 2000, Marker, September 28, 2013, declared a Diocesan Shrine of Saint John the Baptist, Marker; Interiour, choir loft and altar, faithfull in- beside the Saint John the Baptist Catholic School (High School Dept) Calumpit town proper, Barangay Poblacion, Calumpit, Bulacan beside the Site of old Calumpit Institute the new site being in Barangay Corazon, Calumpit, Bulacan[1] in MacArthur Highway.
context_page_description: Mother Dionisia Talangpaz, is a Filipino Roman Catholic figure. Along with her sister Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz, she founded the "Beaterio de San Sebastián de Calumpang", in 1719. The Augustinian Recollect Sisters is the second-oldest native Filipino congregation for women religious founded in the Philippines, after the Religious of the Virgin Mary, established by Venerable Mother Ignacia del Espíritu Santo.
context_section_description: Talangpaz was born on March 12, 1691, in Calumpit, Bulacan to half-Kapampangan parents. Together with her younger sister Cecilia, they settled down near the shrine of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manila. Their devout life attracted the attention of the shrine's caretakers, the Augustinian Recollects, and in July 1725, the sisters received the habit of tertiaries and were gathered in a beaterio. The Talangpaz sisters were notably descended from ancient pre-Hispanic nobility on both sides of their family.
  As explained earlier, the matriarchs of this venerable clan may well have been catalonan who officiated at spiritual rites held on a hallowed rock, the meaning of "Talangpaz."
  
  The sisters' maternal great-granduncle, hermano Phelipe Sonsong (1611–1684), of Macabebe, Pampanga, was a Jesuit brother who was martyred in the Marianas.  A deep devotee of Our Lady of Carmel, he also presaged the special Marian devotion of the sisters.  Their maternal grandfather, Don Augustin Pamintuan, figured prominently in the Pampango Revolt of 1660.
caption: Photo (Calumpit Church)
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