Catalina de Balmaseda y San Martín, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish nun (1544-1594)
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Place of Birth: Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Castile and León, Spain
About Catalina de Balmaseda y San Martín
- Catalina de Balmaseda y San Martín or Sister Catalina de Cristo (1543-1594) was a Carmelite nun and associate of Teresa of Ávila.
- She was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres in Spain in 1543.
- She came from the nobility, but her parents did not teach her to read as they felt that would keep her innocent and away from heresy.
- This ultimately became an impediment to her as a nun and the order taught her reading before she became a prioress.
- She was the prioress in Barcelona when she died in 1594.
- Her body is said to be incorrupt.
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