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Dominican Women Through the Ages |
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bladsy 2 van 4 A cloistered Dominican woman who was remarkable in the seventeenth century was Aña of Peru. At her beatification it was pointed out that although she lived an enclosed life, she had an extraordinary influence on the society of her day, and developed in her contemporaries a desire for justice and a concern for the oppressed.
Therese - captured by pirates..
From the next century, we hear of Theresa Chikaba, a native of West Africa, who was captured by pirates and brought to Spain. After becoming a christian she tried to become a religious but was at first refused because she was black; later however she was received into the Dominican monastery at Salamanca where she lived a life of exemplary holiness.
Zedislava, a Slav..
There was the Slav, ZedisIava Berka, a married woman who in the early days of the Order met the friars, Hyacinth and, Ceslaus of Poland, and attracted to the Dominican ideal, made profession as a lay Dominican and then gave herself to teaching and to caring for the poor and the sick.
Margaret was blind...
A little later in the same century a courageous Italian woman called Margaret of Castello lived the Dominican lay vocation. Although she was blind and deformed, she was constantly visited by troubled people in her home town whom she was able to comfort and encourage.
Rose of Lima..
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