Born to\u00a0Spanish\u00a0immigrants\u00a0to the\u00a0New World. A beautiful\u00a0girl\u00a0and devoted daughter, she was so devoted to her vow of chastity that she used pepper and lye to ruin her complexion so she would not be attractive. Lived and meditated in a\u00a0garden, raising vegetables and making\u00a0embroidered\u00a0items to sell to support her family and help the other\u00a0poor.\u00a0Dominican\u00a0tertiary\u00a0in\u00a01606.\u00a0Mystic. Visionary. Received invisible stigmata. Suffered from assorted physical and mental ailments. First\u00a0saint\u00a0born in the\u00a0Americas. Founder of social work in\u00a0Peru. Great devotion to\u00a0Saint\u00a0Catherine of Siena.<\/p>\n
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She was born on 20 April 1586 at Lima, Peru as Isabel and died on 24 August 1617 at Lima, Peru of natural causes.<\/p>\n
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Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Saint\u00a0Rose of Lima<\/em><\/p>\n Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Saint\u00a0Rose of Lima<\/em><\/p>\n Our Lord and Savior lifted up his voice and said with incomparable majesty: \u201cLet all men know that grace comes after tribulation. Let them know that without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. Let them know that the gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase. Let men take care not to stray and be deceived. This is the only true stairway to paradise, and without the cross they can find no road to climb to heaven.\u201d When I heard these words, a strong force came upon me and seemd to place me in the middle of a street, so that I might say in a loud voice to people of every age, sex and status: \u201cHear, O people; hear, O nations. I am warning you about the commandment of Christ by using words that came from his own lips: We cannot obtain grace unless we suffer afflictions. We must heap trouble upon trouble to attain a deep participation in the divine nature, the glory of the sons of God and perfect happiness of soul.\u201d \u201cIf only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 from the writings of\u00a0Saint\u00a0Rose of Lima<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (catholicsaints.info)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born to\u00a0Spanish\u00a0immigrants\u00a0to the\u00a0New World. A beautiful\u00a0girl\u00a0and devoted daughter, she was so devoted to her vow of chastity that she used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feasts-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwc-tt.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}