Mother Ignacia's Virtues

• Virtue - a habitual and firm disposition to do the good
• Virtue - not only to perform good acts but to give the best of himself
• Virtuous Person - pursues the good and chooses it in concrete actions
• Faith - implanted at baptism
• Faith - posture of seeking and doing the will of the Father
• Courage - to overcome all obstacles that stood
• Obedience - constantly disposed to accept His Will at all times
• Mother Ignacia's Triple Loyalty: to God, to the Church, to her fellowmen
• Pedro Murillo Velarde - the eyewitness biographer of Mother Ignacia
• Humility - when she voluntarily abdicated her position as superior more than 10 years before her death
• Hope - full trust and confidence in God, offering the entire life
• Charity - her sense and practice of loving the neighbor regardless of their race or ethnicity
• Peacemakers - children of God
• Peacemakers - those who live united among themselves with genuine charity, mutually bear with shortcomings, and strive to correct each other with meekness
• In a papal decree dated July 6, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the findings of the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and declared that the Servant of God Ignacia, foundress of the Religious of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is found to possess to a heroic degree.
• Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity
• Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Temperance, Fortitude
• Epitaph - a short poem, saying or other message on a gravestone in memory of a deceased person
• Humility - said to be the "Mother of All Virtues"
• In her 1726 rules and constitution she encouraged the beatas to live a charitable life and be peacemakers thus, to attain perfection of virtues.
• July 6, 2007 - declared Mother Ignacia to be Venerable
• Venerable - a heroic degree of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity toward God and Neighbor
• Venerable - the title given to a candidate for sainthood whose cause has not yet reached the beatification stage
• Venerable - means that she had lived a virtuous life
• Virtuous Person - tends toward the good with all his sensory and spiritual powers