Georgina Josefa del Carmen Febres Cordero-Troconis, also known as Mother Georgina (16 November 1861 – 28 June 1925) was a Venezuelan nun.
Biography
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
Antonio José Ramón de La Trinidad y María Guzmán Blanco (28 February 1829 – 28 July 1899) was a Venezuelan military leader, statesman, diplomat and politician. He was the president of Venezuela for three separate terms, from 1870 until 1 ...
, the Clarisas Sisters congregation 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. In the Latin American Santoral, her celebration day is June 28.
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Eighty years after her death, on 28 June 2005, Febres Cordero's beatification process started in Mérida.]
See also
*Catholic Church in Venezuela
The Catholic Church in Venezuela is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela comprises nine archdioceses, three vicariates, a military ordinariate, and two ...
References
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1861 births
1925 deaths
People from Mérida, Mérida
20th-century Venezuelan Roman Catholic nuns
Founders of Catholic religious communities
19th-century Venezuelan Roman Catholic nuns