Venerated in Roman Catholic Church Attributes Dominican habit | Feast 10 January Beatified 2 February 1985 | |
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Born 26 July 1602
Arequipa, Peru ( 1602-07-26 ) Died 10 January 1686, Arequipa, Peru | ||
Blessed Ana Monteagudo Ponce de Leon (26 July 1602 – 10 January 1686) - in religious Ana de los Angeles - was a Peruvian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Dominican Nuns.
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Pope John Paul II beatified Monteagudo in 1985 upon his apostolic trip to Peru.
Life
Ana Monteagudo Ponce de Leon was born in mid-1602 in Peru as the fourth of eight children to the Spanish-born Sebastiàn Monteagudo de la Jara and the Peruvian Francisca Ponce de Leon. Her brother Francisco became a priest.
Montagudo was educated as the Santa Catalina da Siena convent since her parents entrusted her to the care of the nuns there in 1605 and returned home in 1616 before deciding to become a nun. She became a postulant of the Dominican Nuns in 1616 despite the objections of her parents and became a full member of it later in 1618. Monteagudo served as the convent's sacristan from her profession until 1632 when she was made the novice mistress and held that post until 1645 when she was named as its prioress.
The nun died in 1686 and her remains were interred in the convent where she resided for most of her life. The final decade saw her struggle with a disease that had rendered her blind and frail.
Beatification
The informative phase of the beatification cause opened soon after her death on 17 July 1686 and later concluded at an unspecified time while an apostolic process later opened and concluded its work on 18 December 1903. Monteagudo was named a Servant of God under Pope Benedict XV on 13 June 1917 after the formal introduction to the cause; Pope Paul VI later confirmed her heroic virtue and named her as Venerable.
Pope John Paul II acknowledged a single miracle attributed to her intercession in a decree issued on 30 March 1981 and thus approved her beatification. This took place sometime later on 2 February 1985 when the pope visited Peru.
The current postulator for this cause is the Dominican priest Vito Tomás Gómez García.