PÉREZ FLORIDO, ANNA. - In religion, Piera di S. Giuseppe, foundress of the Madri degli abbandonati, b. at Valle de Abdelajis (diocese of Malaga) on 6 Dec. 1845, d. at Barcelona on 16 Aug. 1906.

She refused marriage so as to be able to dedicate herself completely to the care of poor and lonely persons, abandoned by everyone; and after having tried in vain to enter a Congregation that also cared for these unfortunate ones, she founded, on the advice of the bishop, on 25 Dec. 1880, a new Congregation, to which the bishop himself gave the name of Madri degli abbandonati. The first vows were taken in 1881; the decree of praise on 25 July 1892. Meanwhile many houses were able to be founded in Spain, where countless derelicts found bread and comfort. Extraordinary was the foundress's devotion to St. Joseph, to whom she dedicated all the new houses, and in whose honor she erected next to the foundation of Barcelona a sanctuary that became famous: S. José de la Montaña. Here the foundress died not long afterward.

The cause of beatification was introduced on 3 Dec. 1944.

Bibliography

BIBL.: AAS, 37 (1945), pp. 52-54.

Celestino Testore

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