Third Order Regular Franciscans

The list Third Order Regular Franciscans includes Saint Alphonsa, Thea Bowman, Angelina di Marsciano, Maria Innocentia Hummel and Marianne Cope. The list consists of 39 members and 3 sublists.

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Saint Alphonsa

First Catholic saint from India.

Overview: Saint Alphonsa (19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946) was a Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan nun who is now honoured as a saint. Sister Alphonsa became the first native Indian to be canonized In 2008. She is ...

Date of birth: 19 August 1910

Date of death: 28 July 1946

Age: 35 (age at death)

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Indian Eastern Catholic saints 3T

Indian Christian mystics 2T

Venerated Catholics from Kerala 7T
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Thea Bowman

Roman Catholic Religious Sister

Overview: Thea Bowman (December 29, 1937 – March 30, 1990) was a Roman Catholic religious sister, teacher, and scholar who made a major contribution to the ministry of the Catholic Church toward her fellow ...

Date of birth: 29 December 1937

Date of death: 30 March 1990

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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African-American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 9T

Venerated African-American Catholics 6T

American venerated Catholics 20T
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Marianne Cope

German-born American religious sister (1838–1918)

Overview: Marianne Cope, also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi, (January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918) was a German-born American religious sister who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse ...

Date of birth: 23 January 1838

Date of death: 9 August 1918

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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Catholics from Hawaii 16T

Catholics from New York (state) 492T

Roman Catholic missionaries in Hawaii 17T
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Eugénie Blanchard

Oldest living person

Overview: Anne Eugénie Blanchard (16 February 1896 – 4 November 2010) was a French-Saint Barthélemy supercentenarian, who at the age of 7009362011680000000♠114 years, 261 days was the oldest living person ...

Date of birth: 16 February 1896

Date of death: 4 November 2010

Age: 114 (age at death)

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Former Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 30T

French Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 106T

Curaçao people 45T
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Angelina di Marsciano

Overview: Blessed Angelina di Marsciano (1377 – 1435) was an Italian nun and foundress, and is a beata of the Roman Catholic Church. She founded a congregation of Third Order Religious Sisters, known today as the ...

Date of birth: 1377

Date of death: 14 July 1435

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Gender: Female

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15th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 16T

14th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 8T

14th-century Italian women 61T
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Maria Innocentia Hummel

Franciscan Sister and artist

Overview: Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, O.S.F., (21 May 1909 - 6 November 1946) was a famous German Franciscan Sister and artist. She is noted for the artwork which became the popular Hummel figurines.

Date of birth: 21 May 1909

Date of death: 6 November 1946

Age: 37 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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20th-century German women artists 219T

Nuns and art 17T

20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 669T
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Mary Melone

Overview: Sister Mary Melone, SFA (née Maria Domenica; born 1964) is an Italian Franciscan nun and theologian specialising in St. Anthony of Padua. Since 2014, she has been Rector of the Pontifical University A ...

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21st-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 4T

20th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 34T

Heads of universities in Italy 18T
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Mother Mary Of The Passion

Catholic Religious Sister, missionary, and foundress

Overview: Hélène Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville (Nantes, 21 May 1839 – Sanremo, 15 November 1904), known as the Blessed Mary of the Passion, F.M.M. (French: Mère Marie de la Passion) was a French Religious ...

Date of birth: 21 May 1839

Date of death: 15 November 1904

Age: 65 (age at death)

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Franciscan Missionaries of Mary 5T

Breton beatified people 11T

Venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II 362T
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María Rosa Leggol

Franciscan Sister and social activist

Overview: Sister María Rosa Leggol, O.S.F., was a Honduran Franciscan Religious Sister who has been called the "Mother Teresa" of Honduras. In the 1960s, she organized a group of homes to care for the abandoned ...

Date of birth: 21 November 1926

Date of death: 16 October 2020

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: Honduran

Occupation: Activist

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2020 deaths 11,737T

Honduran women activists 3T

20th-century Christian nuns 359T
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Thomasita Fessler

American artist

Overview: Mary Thomasita Fessler (February 23, 1912 – April 1, 2005) was an American painter and religious sister. Her work consisted of paintings, sculptures, and designs for stained-glass windows.

Date of birth: 23 February 1912

Date of death: 1 April 2005

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Artists from Milwaukee 92T

Painters from Wisconsin 46T

21st-century American painters 1,782T
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Dorothy Hennessey

Overview: Dorothy Marie Hennessey, O.S.F., (March 24, 1913 – January 24, 2008) was a Roman Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister and activist involved with the Peace and Justice movement.

Date of birth: 24 March 1913

Date of death: 24 January 2008

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Catholics from Iowa 94T

People from Manchester, Iowa 20T

American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 177T
12.

Gwen Hennessey

Overview: Gwen Hennessey, O.S.F., (born September 29, 1932) is a Roman Catholic Franciscan Sister and activist most widely known for her anti-war protests.

Date of birth: 29 September 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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20th-century Christian nuns 359T

Catholics from Iowa 94T

21st-century Christian nuns 81T
13.

Irmã Dulce

Brazilian Religious Sister and social activist

Overview: Dulce Pontes, also known as Saint Dulce of the Poor (26 May 1914 – 13 March 1992) was a Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister who was the founder of the Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce also known as the Charitable ...

Date of birth: 26 May 1914

Date of death: 13 March 1992

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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Brazilian women philanthropists 13T

Venerated Catholics by Pope Benedict XVI 109T

Canonizations by Pope Francis 64T
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Mary Frances Schervier

German beatified person

Overview: Mary Frances Schervier (8 January 1819 – 14 December 1876) was the founder of two religious congregations of religious sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, both committed to serving the ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1819

Date of death: 14 December 1876

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Nurse

Gender: Female

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American women nurses 556T

American beatified people 8T

Female nurses in the American Civil War 78T
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Albert Chmielowski

Polish saint

Overview: Albert Chmielowski (20 August 1845 – 25 December 1916) - born Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski - was a Polish nobleman, noted painter, disabled veteran of the Uprising of 1863, a professed religious and ...

Date of birth: 20 August 1845

Date of death: 25 December 1916

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Polish

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Polish male painters 481T

19th-century male artists 2,737T

Members of the Third Order of Saint Francis 70T
16.

Mary Alfred Moes

Luxembourgian-American Roman Catholic nun

Overview: Mother Mary Alfred Moes, O.S.F., (October 28, 1828 — December 18, 1899) was instrumental in establishing first, the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate in Joliet, Illinois, as well as the Sisters ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1828

Date of death: 18 December 1899

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Gender: Female

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Catholics from Minnesota 89T

Religious leaders from Minnesota 31T

Religious leaders from Illinois 72T
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Margaret Feldner

American, Educator

Overview: Sr. Margaret Feldner, O.S.F., Ph.D., served as Quincy University's 21st president. Feldner assumed the post January 1, 2004. She was the first woman president appointed to the role at Quincy. On December ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Educators from Portland, Oregon 28T

Catholics from Ohio 131T

20th-century Christian nuns 359T
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Diane Drufenbrock

American Franciscan Sister and politician

Overview: Diane Joyce Drufenbrock SSSF (7 October 1929 – 4 November 2013), also known as Sister Madeleine Sophie, was an American religious sister as a member of the Catholic School Sisters of St. Francis ...

Date of birth: 1929

Date of death: 4 November 2013

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Female Christian socialists 54T

Catholics from Wisconsin 141T

Catholics from Indiana 76T
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Marija Edita Šolić

Croatian botanist (1946–2021)

Overview: Marija Edita Šolić (26 August 1946 - 31 October 2021), was a Croatian botanist, museum curator and educator. She studied Biokovo's flora and floristic endemism, as well as chorology, systematic-taxonomical ...

Date of birth: 26 August 1946

Date of death: 31 October 2021

Age: 75 (age at death)

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Carol Baltosiewich

Overview: Carol A. Baltosiewich is a nurse and former Hospital Sister of Saint Francis noted for her work with HIV/AIDS patients. She is from Belleville, Illinois.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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