Candida Maria of Jesus
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Saint Cándida María de Jesús |
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31 May 1845 Andoáin, Gipúzkoa, Kingdom of Spain |
| Died | 9 August 1912 (aged 67) Salamanca, Kingdom of Spain |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 12 May 1996, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | 17 October 2010, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Feast | 9 August |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
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Saint Cándida María de Jesús (31 May 1845 – 9 August 1912) - born Juana Josefa Cipitria i Barriola - was a Spanish professed religious and the founder of the Daughters of Jesus. The order - founded in 1871 - was under Jesuit direction from her spiritual director and was involved with the education of children in Salamanca though expanded during her lifetime.
Barriola was canonized as a saint on 17 October 2010.
Juana Josefa Cipitria i Barriola was born in mid-1845 as the eldest of seven children to the weavers Juan Miguel Cipitria and María Jesús Barriola. Her father was a weaver. Rather than attend school she helped look after her siblings because she was the eldest child. She received her Confirmation on 5 August 1848 and made her First Communion in 1855.
Aged eighteen she went to Burgos to help support the household and worked as a domestic servant in various homes. Barriola was affected to a great degree from the depth of the poor conditions that she witnessed in a place undergoing the social effects of the Industrial Revolution in her native land.
The Jesuit priest Miguel José Herranz advised her on her path ahead and at his advice started a number of charitable and educations programs; the two met in Valladolid in 1868. Barriola believed that she experienced a vision of Jesus Christ on 26 March 1869 on Good Friday. On 8 December 1871 - alongside five companions - she founded the Daughters of Jesus and she assumed the religious name: "Cándida María de Jesús".
The nun founded the congregation for the education of children and the advancement of the women in Salamanca. The congregation received diocesan approval from the Bishop of Salamanca on 3 April 1873. On 8 December 1873 she made her solemn profession.
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