Maria Soledad Torres Acosta
Maria Soledad Torres Acosta (also St. Manuela Bibiana or Maria Desolata), real name Emmanuela Torres Acosta (born December 2, 1826 in Madrid , † October 11, 1887 ibid) was a Spanish religious founder . She is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church .
Manuela Bibiana Torres Acosta was born and raised religiously, the second of five children of shopkeepers Francisco Torres and Antonia Acosta. Even as a child she showed a deep piety and especially adored the Virgin Mary . She tried to join the Dominicans as a teenager , but was turned down because of her poor health. In 1851 she founded the women's congregation of the Siervas de María, Ministras de los enfermos (Maidservants of Mary, servants of the sick) in Madrid . She took on the religious name Maria Soledad and was the general superior of the community, which was especially dedicated to home nursing and Christian dying, until her death . The Order made great merits during the cholera epidemic in Madrid in 1865 . He was approved by Cardinal Cirilo Alameda y Brea of Toledo and received the Decretum laudis in 1867 . The papal approbation followed in 1876 on the intercession of Juan Ignacio Moreno y Maisonaves. At the time of Maria Soledad's death in 1887, the community had 46 branches at home and abroad.
Maria Soledad was buried in the S. Justo cemetery in Madrid, and legend has it that her uncorrupted body was transferred to the church of the mother house in Chamberí in 1883. The beatification process , which opened in 1915, was approved by Pius XII. completed, the canonization took place January 25, 1970 by Paul VI. The liturgical day of remembrance is October 11th, when she is called St. Manuela serves as the namesake of the name Manuela . A statue of the saint made by Novello Finotti and blessed by John Paul II was placed in a niche in the outer wall of St. Peter's Basilica in 2002 . In 2016 a film was produced about the saint ( Luz y Soledad in Spanish ) , which illustrates her vocation and the first difficult years as a founder.
literature
- Hubert Kolling: Torres-Acosta, Emanuela In: Horst-Peter Wolff (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zur care history. “Who was who in nursing history.” Volume 3, Urban & Fischer, 2001, ISBN 3-437-26671-3 , p. 284
- Johannes Grohe : Maria Soledad Torres Acosta. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1500-1505.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archdiocese of Vienna: St. Manuela Bibiana ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints: Maria Soledad
- ↑ Luz de Soledad. International Movie Database (IMDb), accessed on March 18, 2018 .
Web links
- Siervas de Maria: Soledad Torres Acosta, una vida hecha servicio (biography Maria Soledad, Spanish)
- Official website of the film Luz de Soledad: Spanish or English
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Torres Acosta, Maria Soledad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Torres Acosta, Emmanuela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish founder and saint |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1887 |
| Place of death | Madrid |