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'''Rose of Lima''', (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617),<ref>[http://saints.sqpn.com/ps4g14.htm Patron Saints Index: Saint Rose of Lima] Retrieved on 2008-08-23.</ref> the first Catholic saint of the [[Americas]], was born in [[Lima]], [[Peru]]. |
'''Rose of Lima''', (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617),<ref>[http://saints.sqpn.com/ps4g14.htm Patron Saints Index: Saint Rose of Lima] Retrieved on 2008-08-23.</ref> the first Catholic saint of the [[Americas]], was born in [[Lima]], [[Peru]]. |
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==Biography== |
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St. Rose of Lima was born in the present-day city of Lima (Peru). She received the baptismal name Isabel Flores de Oliva. She was from a large family. Her father, Gaspar Flores, was a Puerto Rican [[Harquebusier (cavalry)|harquebusier]], and her mother, Maria de Oliva, was born in Lima. She was personally [[confirmation (Catholic Church)|confirmed]] by the Archbishop of Lima, [[Turibius de Mongrovejo]]. Her nickname "Rosa" was a testament to her holy ties. When she was a baby, a servant claimed to have seen her face transform into a rose, hence her name, "Rosa". |
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FART!!!''''''''Italic text''''' Daily fasting turned to perpetual abstinence from meat. Her days were filled with acts of charity and industry. Rose helped the sick and hungry around her community. She would bring them to her home and take care of them. Rose sold her fine needlework, grew beautiful flowers, and would take them to market to help her family. Her exquisite lace and embroidery helped to support her home, while her nights were devoted to prayer and penance in a little [[grotto]] which she had built. She became a recluse leaving the grotto only for her visits to the Blessed Sacrament. |
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She took the name of Rose at her confirmation in 1597. She had so attracted the attention of the [[Dominican Order]] that she was permitted to enter a Dominican convent in 1602 without payment of the usual [[dowry]]. In her twentieth year she donned the habit and took a vow of perpetual virginity. |
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For eleven years this self-martyrdom continued without relaxation, with intervals of ecstasy, until she died on August 24, 1617, at the age of 31, having prophesied the date of her death exactly. Her funeral was attended by all the public authorities of Lima, and the archbishop pronounced her eulogy in the cathedral. |
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==Veneration== |
==Veneration== |
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Revision as of 15:52, 16 November 2010
Saint Rose of Lima | |
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 St Rose of Lima, the first saint from the Americas | |
| Virgin | |
| Born | April 20, 1586 Lima, Peru |
| Died | August 24, 1617 (aged 31) Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion |
| Beatified | April 15, 1667 or 1668, Rome by Pope Clement IX |
| Canonized | April 2, 1671, Rome by Pope Clement X |
| Major shrine | convent of Santo Domingo in Lima, Peru |
| Feast | August 20 August 23 (Episcopal Church (USA)) August 30 (some Latin American countries and pre-1970 General Roman Calendar) |
| Attributes | rose, anchor, Infant Jesus |
| Patronage | embroiderers; gardeners; florists; India; Latin America; people ridiculed or misunderstood for their piety; for the resolution of family quarrels; native Indian peoples of the Americas;Peru; Philippines; Santa Rosa, California; against vanity; Lima; Peruvian Police Force |
Rose of Lima, (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617),[1] the first Catholic saint of the Americas, was born in Lima, Peru.
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Veneration
Rose was beatified by Pope Clement IX on April 15, 1667, and canonized on April 12, 1671 by Pope Clement X, the first Catholic in the Americas to be declared a saint. Her shrine, alongside those of her friends, St. Martin de Porres and Saint John Macías, is located inside the convent of St. Dominic in Lima. The Roman Catholic Church mentions the many miracles that followed her death. Stories have been heard that she has cured a leper. Many places are named Santa Rosa in the New World and pay homage to this saint. Pope Benedict XVI is especially devoted to her.
Her liturgical feast was inserted into the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints in 1727 for celebration initially on August 30, because August 24, the anniversary day of her death, is the feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle and August 30 was the closest date not already occupied by a well-known saint.[2] Pope Paul VI's 1969 reform of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, made August 23 available, the day on which her feast day is now celebrated throughout the world, including Spain, but excluding Peru and some other Latin American countries, where August 30 is a public holiday in her honor.
She is honored together with Martin de Porres and Toribio de Mogrovejo with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on August 23.
She is the patroness of native Indian people of the Americas and their beneficence, of gardeners, of florists, of Lima, of Peru, of the New World, of the Philippines, of Santa Rosa, California, and of Sittard, the Netherlands, of India, of people misunderstood for their piety and of the resolution of family quarrels.
Early Lives of Santa Rosa were written by the Dominican Father Hansen, "Vita Sanctae Rosae" (2 vols., Rome, 1664–1668), and Vicente Orsini, afterward. Pope Benedict XIII wrote "Concentus Dominicano, Bononiensis ecclesia, in album Sanctorum Ludovici Bertrandi et Rosae de Sancta Maria, ordinero praedicatorum" (Venice, 1674).
There is a park named for her in downtown Sacramento, California.[3] A plot of land at 7th and K streets was given to the Roman Catholic Church by Peter Burnett, first governor of the state of California. Father Peter Anderson built one of the first of two churches in the diocese to be consecrated in honor of St Rose.[4]
In the Caribbean twin-island state of Trinidad and Tobago, the Santa Rosa Carib Community, Located in Arima is the largest organization of indigenous peoples on the island [5]. The second oldest Parish in the Diocese of Port-of-Spain, is also named after this Saint. TheSanta Rosa R.C. Church, which is also located in the town of Arima, was established on April 20th 1786 as the Indian Mission of Santa Rosa de Arima by on the foundations of a Capuchin Mission previously established in 1749. [6]
The public may see the cranium of Santa Rosa, in the Basilica in Lima, Peru. It was customary to keep the torso in the Basilica and pass the cranium around the country, inviting all to venerate and gaze. She has a crown of roses on her cranium. She is also displayed with San Martin de Porres, who also has the cranium separate from the torso.
Literature
Teodoro Hampe Martínez: Santa Rosa de Lima y la identidad criolla en el Perú colonial (Ensayo de interpretación) Revista de Historia de América, No. 121 (January – December, 1996), pp. 7–26
References
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Rose of Lima Retrieved on 2008-08-23.
- ^ Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 101
- ^ Downtown Sacramento Partnership site: St Rose of Lima Park
- ^ The History of the Sacramento Diocese, second paragraph
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- ^ [2]