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99-year-old Carmelite nun credits her family and Mary for her long, happy vocation | VCT Denver Newsroom, Jun 17, 2022 / 04:42 am Agustina Medina Muñoz is 99 years old and has been a Discalced Carmelite …More
99-year-old Carmelite nun credits her family and Mary for her long, happy vocation | VCT
Denver Newsroom, Jun 17, 2022 / 04:42 am
Agustina Medina Muñoz is 99 years old and has been a Discalced Carmelite cloistered nun in Chile, for almost 80 years.
In the religious order, she took the name Francisca Teresa of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face in honor of the French saint and doctor of the Church through whom her vocation matured.
“They say I’m 99 years old. It’s hard to believe it. My life has passed so quickly,” the nun said in a testimony published in the Archdiocese of Concepción’s magazine Nuestra Iglesia (Our Church).
The nun's testimony which the Carmelite sisters took down based on things she has said and then approved, says that Francisca Teresa was born on March 23, 1923, and that she is the first of eight siblings.
“My grandmother Asunción always lived with us and was part of the family. She was one of the most important people in my life. Her affection, her piety for the Blessed …More
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