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St. Paula Frassinetti was the Italian saint in the Roman Catholic Church and foundress of the Congregation St. Dorothea. Her feast day was June 12.〔("St. Paula Frassinetti", ''Catholic Courier'', Diocese of Rochester, NY )〕 ==Life== Paula was born March 3, 1809 in Genoa, Italy to Giovanni Battista Frassinetti, a cloth merchant, and his wife Angela. The third of five children, her four brothers all became priests. When she was nine years old, her mother died and an aunt came to help with the household. Three years later her aunt died, and at the age of twelve, Paula assumed the responsibility. At the age of nineteen, Paula went to stay with her brother Giuseppe, a priest at the seaside village of Quinto in Liguria. In 1834 she and six other women form a small community called the "Daughters of Holy Faith". Fr. Giuseppe and members of the parish started a small school in a church that had been dedicated to St. Clare. The sisters teach in the school, and go to Genoa to help during a break out of Cholera.〔 In 1835 Blessed Fr. Luca Passi, of Bergamo, a friend of her brother Giuseppe, asked Paula if she would assume the Pious Work of Saint Dorothy, a project he had founded to serve the poorest and most needy youth. Thereafter the Daughters of Holy Faith became known as the Sisters of Saint Dorothy. On May 19, 1841, Paula establishes a house in Rome. The work of the institute expands beyond Liguria and Rome, to other parts of Italy as new houses, boarding schools, and orphanages are established.〔(Joseph S.J., P.J. "St. Paula Frassinetti", Vatican Radio )〕 Later the sisters establish a presence in Malta, Portugal, and Brazil. In the United Kingdom the sisters run an International Student's Residence and are involved in Parish Ministry.〔("The Sisters of Saint Dorothy", Malta Dorothean Province )〕 She died on June 11, 1882 after a bout with pneumonia following several strokes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Saint Paula Frassinetti )〕 Her body was found to be incorrupt in 1906.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paula Frassinetti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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