Venerable Camila Rolón
1842 – 1913
Camila Rolón (religious name Camila of Saint Joseph, 18 July 1842 – 16 February 1913) was an Argentine religious sister and the founder of the Poor Sisters of Saint Joseph. Rolón survived a cholera outbreak in Buenos Aires in the 1870s that claimed her mother and brother and after this made attempts to enter either the Capuchin Poor Clares or the Carmelites. In 1880, she moved to Mercedes where she founded an orphanage that would later evolve into a religious congregation. This congregation spread to the point that the motherhouse relocated to Rome as did she and it was there that she died. Her beatification process opened in 1950 despite the fact that the cause was not introduced on a formal level until 1975. In 1993, she became titled as venerable after Pope John Paul II confirmed that Rolón had practiced heroic virtue during her life.
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