Saint Beatrice da Silva Meneses
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- Also known as
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Brites
Beatrix da Silva
Beatriz da Silva Meneses
- Memorial
- 17 August
- Profile
- Daughter of the Count of Viana.
Sister of Saint Amedeus of Portugal.
Raised in the household of Princess Isabel, and accompanied her to Castile when she married John II of Castile.
Beatrice spent much of her life as a courtier, but tired of it.
She retired to a Cistercian convent in the city of Toledo, and dedicated the rest of her life to God.
Around 1484, Beatrice left the Cistercians and founded the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
With the help of Queen Isabel, who funded the start of the new order, Beatrice established a house near the city of Toledo in the castle of Galliana, and spent the final six years of her life working with the women who joined the order.
- Born
- 1424 at in Campo Maior, Portalegre, Portugal
- Died
- 17 August 1492 in Toledo, Spain of natural causes
- Beatified
- 28 July 1926 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmed)
- Canonized
- 3 October 1976 by Pope Paul VI
- Patronage
- prisoners
- Additional Information
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Catholic Online
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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