Julia Navarrete Guerrero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
About Julia Navarrete Guerrero
- Julia Navarrete Guerrero (1 June 1881 - 21 November 1974) - in religious Julia of the Thorns of the Sacred Heart - was a Mexican Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Misioneras Hijas de la PurĂsima Virgen MarĂa.
- Navarrete first felt called to promote religious education from her adolescence while still a student before moving to the national capital where she met the Jesuit priest Alberto CuscĂł who formed her in the religious life.
- Not long after this she became a nun and set about founding schools and missions across both Mexico and the United States where she first started in Texas.
- Her brother Juan MarĂa Navarrete Guerrero became the Archbishop of Hermosillo and whose beatification process is ongoing. Her beatification process launched in Mexico in 1985 and Pope John Paul II later titled her as Venerable on 22 June 2004 as confirmation that Navarrete maintained heroic virtue in her life.
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