Georgina Febres-Cordero

Venezuelan nun

Georgina Febres-Cordero (in full Georgina Josefa del Carmen Febres Cordero-Troconis), also known as "Mother Georgina" (16 November 1861 – 28 June 1925) was a Venezuelan religious sister.^[1]

Life

After the death of her mother on October 1873, Georgina took charge of the Clarisas Sisters congregation along with her aunt Sofía Febres Cordero, sister of her father. Back then, they were the only religious congregation in Mérida. After the execution of the Extinction of the Convents of Female Religious Life Decree on 5 May 1874, during the presidency of Antonio Guzmán Blanco, the congregation of the Clarisas Sisters were ordered to close and their members to return to their homes.

She founded the Dominican Sisters of Santa Rosa de Lima on 5 July 1900, and was the director and administrator of the Hospicio San Juan de Dios accompanied by Julia Picón and Herminia Vitoria under the protection of bishop Antonio Ramón Silva.^[1]

Eighty years after her death, on 28 June 2005, Febres Cordero's beatification process started in Mérida.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Sierva de Dios Georgina Josefa Febres Cordero Troconis". Oremosjuntos.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
^ Porras Cardozo, Baltazar Enrique (28 June 2005). "La Madre Georgina a los altares". El Universal. Retrieved 7 November 2017.