Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello

Italian saint, nun and foundress

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1791

Place of Birth: Campomorone, Liguria, Italy

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1858

Profession: nun, missionary

Zodiac Sign: Libra


Show Famous Birthdays Today, World

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello

  • Saint Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence.
  • Frassinello married to appease her parents in 1816 but the couple decided to lead a chaste life and both pursued a call to the religious life with Frassinello joining the Ursulines in Capriolo at Brescia.
  • But husband and wife later reunited after setting out to establish schools all for the education of girls and the pair moved back to Genoa where she founded her order in 1838 based on the Benedictine charism.Frassinello's beatification was celebrated in mid-1987 and she was later canonized as a saint over a decade later in 2002.

Read more at Wikipedia