Feast August 2
Blessed Joan of Aza
Blessed · Saint · Feast August 2
Biography
Juana de Aza is the name gradually developed in hagiographical tradition for the mother of Saint Dominic and Bl. Manés de Guzmán. In the final form of this tradition, she is said to have been born in about 1135 in Haza and to have died at Caleruega on 4 August 1205. Juana de Aza was beatified in 1828.
Feast day
August 2
Birth date
c.1135
Death date
August 4, 1205 (aged ~70)
Canonization status
Beatified
Feast month
8
Wikidata qid
Q764050
Feast day of month
2