Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello
Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence. Frassinello married to appease her parents in 1816 but the couple decided to lead a chaste life and both pursued a call to the religious life with Frassinello joining the Ursulines in Capriolo at Brescia. But husband and wife later reunited after setting out to establish schools for the education of girls and the pair moved back to Genoa where she founded her order in 1838 based on the Benedictine charism.
Frassinello's beatification was celebrated in 1987 and she was canonized as a saint in 2002.
Patron saint of Benedictine Sisters of Providence; Educators
In the Martyrology
- March 21 Saint Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello, founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence