LONGO, MARIA LORENZA, Venerable. — Foundress of the Capuchin nuns, originally from Catalonia, born in Naples in 1463, died there on 21 Dec. 1542.
After becoming widowed, she arranged for the care of her three children and devoted herself entirely to charitable works under the spiritual direction of St. Cajetan of Thiene, establishing a large building capable of housing all kinds of sick and incurable patients (1519). She then founded a monastery (commonly known as the Monastery of the Penitents), of Poor Clares who later took the name of Capuchin nuns because they wished to follow the reform of the Capuchins and were thus approved by Paul III with the *motu proprio* *Cum monasterium* of 10 Dec. 1538. The cause for her beatification was introduced in 1852.
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