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DECEMBER 10: SHE LED WOMEN AWAY FROM PROSTITUTION
Blessed Maria Emilia Riquelme Zayas
Religious Virgin and Founder
Died: 1940
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She was a Spanish nun and founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Mary Immaculate. Even when she was not yet a nun, she already took time to serve the sick in hospitals and help the poor. She also gave her money to poor young women to keep them away from prostitution. Her work and personal piety attracted other like-minded women. This became the start of her religious congregation.
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Blessed Maria Emilia Riquelme Zayas, please pray for the women of today to abandon promiscuity, to stay righteous, and to stay faithful to the virtue of chastity all their lives. Please pray for young men so that they might not corrupt themselves or the women of today, but instead help them to grow into chaste, virtuous women. Amen.
Blessed Maria Emilia Riquelme Zayas
Religious Virgin and Founder
Died: 1940
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She was a Spanish nun and founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Mary Immaculate. Even when she was not yet a nun, she already took time to serve the sick in hospitals and help the poor. She also gave her money to poor young women to keep them away from prostitution. Her work and personal piety attracted other like-minded women. This became the start of her religious congregation.
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Blessed Maria Emilia Riquelme Zayas, please pray for the women of today to abandon promiscuity, to stay righteous, and to stay faithful to the virtue of chastity all their lives. Please pray for young men so that they might not corrupt themselves or the women of today, but instead help them to grow into chaste, virtuous women. Amen.