Optional Memorial
Saint Rose of Lima
- Feast day
- August 23
- Patron of
- Latin America and the Philippines
- Origin
- Peruvian
Life
Rose of Lima was the first person born in the Americas to be canonized. She lived a life of severe penance and mystical prayer while caring for the poor and sick in Lima.
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