APRIL 12 - SAINT TERESA OF THE ANDES
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Juanita Fernandez Solar
Teresa de los Andes
Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
Memorial
12 April
13 July (Carmelites)
Profile
Born to an upper class family. From her adolescence Teresa was devoted to Christ. Greatly influenced by the autobiography of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. She entered the monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns at Los Andes on 7 May 1919, and was given the name Teresa of Jesus. A model for young people. The first Chilean and the first member of the Teresian Carmel in Latin America to be beatified.
Born
13 July 1900 at Santiago, Chile as Juanita Fernandez Solar
Died
12 April 1920 at the Carmelite convent at Los Andes, Chile of typhus
Venerated
22 March 1986 by Pope John Paul II (decree on heroic virtues)
Beatified
3 April 1987 at Santiago, Chile by Pope John Paul II
her brother, Luis, attended the beatification
Canonized
21 March 1993 by Pope John Paul II
Patronage
against bodily ills
against illness
against sickness
sick people
young people in general