Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish venerated Christian
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Place of Birth: Numancia de la Sagra, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
About Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez
- Juana de la Cruz Vázquez y Gutiérrez, T.O.R., (3 May 1481 – 3 May 1534), was a Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular.
- Known to be a mystic, she was authorized to preach publicly, an extraordinary permission for a woman.
- Living at the start of Spanish mysticism's golden era, she is counted among Teresa of Ávila's literary mothers.
- In 2015 she was declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.
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