Liturgy

25th of May SAINT VICENTA MARIA LOPEZ Y VICUÑA, VIRGIN Foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of Mary Immaculate

Born in the city of Cascante, Navarra, Spain on the 22nd of March 1847. Since she was a child she honored herself by her love to the Christian Doctrine.  In 1866, rejecting marriage, she did the vow of chastity. She founded in the city of Madrid the institute of the Religious of Mary Immaculate to look after the needs of the young servants girls:  took the habit in 1876 and made her religious vows in 1878.  Living her life generously for the souls, she excelled in her exemplary love for God and her brothers , and especially to the poor and humble, a characteristic that she left as an inheritance to her daughters.  Her religious family spread out and was confirmed by pontificial authority.   The brief life of the Foundress ended in Madrid on the 26th of December 1890.