Maria Antonia Pereira
María Antonia Pereira do Campo, born in Cuntis (1700) and died in Santiago de Compostela (1760), was a religious Galician, known as the Sierva of God María Antonia of Jesus, or Monxiña of the Penedo.
History
Pereira was a servant in Santiago de Compostela and Baiona before traveling to Madrid. Her marriage was arranged by her family and, after marriage, her husband and two children embraced the religious life in different orders.
In the capital, after working as a servant, she joined the Carmelite community of Alcalá de Henares. With important ecclesiastical and economic support, she returned to Santiago and, there, after overcoming the Archbishop’s reticence, opened a new cloistered order, beginning the works that started her convent, which was directed by the Carmelites José of the Saints and José of the Holy Spirit.[1]
Known as the Monxiña of the Penedo because of her place of birth, Pereira went on to become the founder of the convent of Discalced Carmelites of Compostela in 1748, and the Roman Catholic Church considered Pereira venerable due to her virtues. Much of her work was conserved in the convent.[1]
Veneration
In 1761, Pereira's canonization started but halted temporarily in 1770.
On 25 January 1993, by the authority of the then Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela restarted the canonization process, concluding it on 14 June 1996, and submitting it to the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints on 25 July 1999. In 2007, the canonization received the approval of the Historical Commission (Positio) and Pereira received the title of Sierva of God.[2]
Work
- Spiritual building. Santiago de Compostela: Bibliófilos Galician, 1954
- Spiritual notes (Handwritten). 1729-1730
- Autobiography (Handwritten). 1737-1738, 1754-1755
External links
- Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. official web site
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Madre María Antonia de Jesús (Pereira y Andrade) on the official blog for the Carmelite.
- ↑ Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Cronologia on the official blog for the Carmelite.
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 466: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 466: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).]]. |
This article "Maria Antonia Pereira" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Maria Antonia Pereira. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
