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November 13 |
Optional Memorial
From the Common of Virgins.
On November 13th we celebrate the memorial of Blessed Maria Teresa Scrilli. Maria Scrilli, in religion Maria Teresa of Jesus was born in Montevarchi on May 15, 1825 and was called by the heavenly Father while in Florence on November 14, 1889. She was beatified in Fiesole (Florence) on October 8, 2006.
The Blessed Mother was a devotee of the Florentine saint Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi whom she met while still an adolescent reading the lives of saints.
She is the foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Carmel.
Mother Maria Teresa's charism lives on in her Institute in the nations where it is present today: Italy, the United States, Canada, Poland, India, Brazil, the Czech Republic and the Philippines.
