Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
Joaquima de Vedruna Vidal de Mas, CCV (16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854) was a Spanish Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.
First she married a nobleman despite her desire to become a nun though she and her husband both desired the religious life; the couple bore nine children but she and her children fled after Napoleon invaded the nation to which her husband remained to fight as a volunteer and later died leaving her widowed but free to pursue her religious inclinations. Her canonisation was celebrated on 12 April 1959.
In the Martyrology
- August 28 Saint Joaquina de San Francisco Vedruna de Mas, widow, founder of the Carmelites of Charity