Ana of the Angels Monteagudo

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Monteagudo and the second or maternal family name is Ponce de Leon.
10 January
AttributesDominican habit

Ana Monteagudo Ponce de Leon, OP (26 July 1602 – 10 January 1686), also known as Ana (or Ann) of the Angels Monteagudo, was a Peruvian Catholic nun from the Dominicans.[1][2]

Monteagudo studied under nuns in her childhood and decided to become one following a vision she had of Catherine of Siena showing her the Dominican habit. Her parents made the effort to dissuade her from this though she continued to pursue that path until she was inducted as a member of the Dominicans. She became noted for her holiness and held leadership positions due to her wisdom and the esteem that others had for her.[3]

Pope John Paul II beatified Monteagudo in 1985 upon his apostolic trip to Peru.

Life

Ana Monteagudo Ponce de Leon was born in mid-1602 in

Spanish-born Sebastián Monteagudo de la Jara and the Peruvian Francisca Ponce de Leon. Her brother Francisco became a priest.[1][2]
Her other siblings were:

Monteagudo was educated at the Santa Catalina de Siena convent in Arequipa, Peru since her parents entrusted her to the care of the nuns there in 1605 and returned home in 1616 before deciding to become a

prioress.[1]

Blessed Virgin Mary, the saint, and a legion of angels where the saint showed her the purgatory.[4]

The nun died in 1686 and her remains were interred in the convent where she resided for most of her life. The final decade saw her struggle with a disease that had rendered her blind and frail.[2][3]

Beatification

The informative phase of the beatification cause opened soon after her death on 17 July 1686 and later concluded at an unspecified time while an apostolic process later opened and concluded its work on 18 December 1903. Monteagudo's spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 25 August 1909, and on 13 June 1917

Venerable
.

Pope John Paul II acknowledged a single miracle attributed to her intercession in a decree issued on 30 March 1981 and thus approved her beatification. This took place sometime later on 2 February 1985 when the pope visited Peru.

The current postulator for this cause is the Dominican priest Vito Tomás Gómez García.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Blessed Anna of the Angels Monteagudo". Saints SQPN. 9 January 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Blessed Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Sister Ana de los Angeles". Monasterio de Santa Catalina. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Anna of the Angels Monteagudo". Community of Hope. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  5. ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 17.

External links

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