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Blessed Maria Pia Mastena | |
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Born | 7 December 1881 Bovolone, Verona, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 28 June 1951 Rome, Lazio, Italy | (aged 69)
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Beatified | 13 November 2005, Saint Peter's Basilica by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins |
Feast | 28 June |
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Blessed Maria Pia Mastena (7 December 1881 - 28 June 1951) - born Teresa Maria - was an Italian religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the founder of the Religious Sisters of the Holy Face.[1][2] Mastena fostered a deep devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and tried to promote that devotion to others in her religious career as a nun. Mastena first desired the contemplative life but was denied this after she entered the convent since it was not a cloister.[1][3] Instead she dedicated herself to teaching in several Italian cities after having left another convent and another religious order when she deemed contemplative life was not the life she felt God wanted for her. Her labors were dedicated instead to consolidating a new religious congregation which began to grow after World War II until Mastena's sudden death in 1951.[2][4] Mastena was beatified on 13 November 2005.