Mother Ignacia's Enduring Legacies

• Who was the foundress of the RVM congregation?

  Mother Ignacia
• When was Mother Ignacia's Holy Death?

  September 10, 1748
• What was Mother Ignacia's age when she died?

  85
• What is Ignacia's first legacy?

  Spirituality
• Spirituality - can be characterized as centered on a loving God and a humble and obedient Jesus
• Spirituality - to be understood as inspired by the Holy Spirit
• Spirituality - a way of relating with God, and a way of following Jesus who is the way to God
• What was Mother Ignacia's spirituality characterized as?

  Love
• Community - Mother Ignacia's second legacy
• What was Mother Ignacia's community?

  Beaterio de la Compania de Jesus
• Charity - the prevailing Christian value that mother Ignacia and her beatas tried to live out
• Charity - is love in action
• Work - Mother Ignacia's third legacy
• Independence - the fourth legacy of Mother Ignacia
• Independence - symbolized by the needle and scissors she brought with her when she left home
• Living by the Sweat of the Brows - the known characteristics of the Beatas being self-supporting
• What was Mother Ignacia's legacies?

  Spirituality, Community, Work, Independence, Living by the Sweat of the Brows
• When was the cause for mother Ignacia's beatification started?

  1986
• Who spearheaded Mother Ignacia's beatification?

  Jaime Cardinal Sin
• When was Mother Ignacia declared as venerable?

  July 6, 2007
• Who declared Mother Ignacia as venerable?

  Pope Benedict XVI