Benigna Cardoso da Silva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Santana do Cariri, CearĂ¡, Brazil
About Benigna Cardoso da Silva
- Benigna Cardoso da Silva (15 October 1928 - 24 October 1941) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic child.
- In her childhood she was adopted following the deaths of her parents and was noted for aiding in household chores and attending Mass on a regular basis.
- But she was better known for having been murdered after rejecting the sexual advances of Raimundo Alves Riberio who was around her age in order to protect herself as being chaste which she desired and defended even to the point Riberio killed her using a machete that he carried on his person.Her beatification cause launched in 2013 and she became titled as a Servant of God.
- The cause had been initiated in order to determine whether she had died "in defensum castitatis" - or to defend her chaste nature as a virgin.
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