Paula Frassinetti

St. Paula Frassinetti is an Italian saint in the Roman Catholic Church and foundress of the Congregation St. Dorothea. Frassinetti began her religious work by joining her brother, who was a priest, in teaching and caring for the less fortunate in Quinto, Italy. Jones p. 92 Soon other women joined her and in 1835, she created the The Sisters of Saint Dorothy, a religious order whose particular areas of concern in ministry are the poor, women and children. She died on June 11, 1882 after a bout with pneumonia following several strokes.
Her body was found to be incorrupt in 1906.
She was canonized on March 11, 1984 by Pope John Paul II.
==See also==
Incorruptibility
==Notes==
==References==
* ISBN 0860122557
==External links==
*Sisters of Saint Dorothy
*Vatican Biography
Category:1809 births
Category:1888 deaths
Category:Italian saints
Category:Female saints
Category:19th-century Christian saints
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