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Place of Birth: San Isidro, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
About Camila Rolón
- Camila Rolón (18 July 1842 - 16 February 1913) - in religious Camila of Saint Joseph - was an Argentine Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Poor Sisters of Saint Joseph.
- Rolón survived a cholera outbreak in Buenos Aires in the 1870s that claimed her mother and brother and after this made two failed attempts to enter the Capuchin Poor Clares and the Carmelites.
- In 1880 she moved to Mercedes where she founded an orphanage that would later evolve into a religious congregation.
- Her order spread to the point that the motherhouse relocated to Rome as did she and it was there that she died.Her beatification process opened in 1950 despite the fact that the cause was not introduced on a formal level until 1975.
- In 1993 she became titled as Venerable after Pope John Paul II confirmed that Rolón had practiced heroic virtue during her life.
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