Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
LOPEZ Y VICUÑA, VINCENZA MARIA, blessed. - Born in Cascante (Navarre) on March 22, 1847, died in Madrid on December 26, 1890, founder of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate for domestic service. From her youth, she dedicated herself to good works and apostolic activities, taking as a model of heroic charity an aunt with whom she lived in Madrid from 1854 to 1873.
LOPEZ Y VICUÑA, VINCENZA MARIA, blessed - Portrait. (courtesy of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate)In 1888, on April 18, she obtained from Leo XIII the decretum laudis and made her perpetual vows on July 31, 1890. She died a holy death a few months later. About ten years earlier, she had made a perpetual vow to seek perfection in all her undertakings. She was beatified by Pius XII on February 13, 1950.
BIBL.: Angelo di S. Teresa, La serva di Dio V. M. L. y V., Roma 1929; E. Federici, La beata V. M. L. y V., ivi 1950; C. Testore, La beata V. M. L. y V., Isola del Liri 1950.
Arnaldo M. Lanz
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“LOPEZ Y VICUÑA, VINCENZA MARIA, BEATA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), p. 921. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/lopez-y-vicuna-vincenza-maria-beata.
