Teresa Jornet Ibars, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish saint
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Place of Birth: Aitona, Catalonia, Spain
About Teresa Jornet Ibars
- Saint Teresa Jornet Ibars (9 January 1843 – 26 August 1897) – in religious Teresa of Jesus – was a Catalan Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly. Ibars was the great-niece of Blessed Francisco Palau and a friend and confidante of the Venerable Saturnino López Novoa.
- Her dedication to the old and ill was noted and for the work of her sisters in Spain and later abroad. Her beatification was celebrated under Pope Pius XII on 27 April 1958 in Saint Peter's Basilica while Pope Paul VI later canonized her as a saint in 1974.
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