Colomba Gabriel
Colomba Matylda Gabriel (3 May 1858 - 24 September 1926) Her religious name was Janina, and she was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic professed religious. She is the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Charity. Gabriel studied under the Order of Saint Benedict in Lviv and later became a Benedictine herself while dedicating herself to teaching at her old school before she was forced to relocate to Rome in 1900, where she founded her order and joined a Benedictine branch there.
Gabriel's beatification process opened in 1983, and she was titled as Venerable in 1990. Her beatification was celebrated in mid-1993.
Patron saint of Benedictine Sisters of Charity
In the Martyrology
- September 24 Blessed Janina Gabriel, Benedictine abbess of Lviv, founder of Benedicine Sisters of Charity