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Jerónima de la Asunción, madre, 1555-1630

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Personal name headingJerónima de la Asunción, madre, 1555-1630
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Variant(s)Gerónima de la Asunción, madre, 1555-1630
Yañez de la Fuente, Jerónima, 1555-1630
Birth date1555-09
Death date16301022
Place of birthToledo (Spain)
Place of deathManila (Philippines)
Field of activityCatholic Church
AffiliationPoor Clares
Profession or occupationNun Abess
female
Found inJerónima de la Asunción, 1991?: p. v (leader of the first group of religious women to come to the Philippines in 1621; founder of the Order of St. Clare; b. 1555; d. 1630)
Perfecta religiosa contiene tres libros. Libro I. De la vida de la Madre Geronima de la Asuncion de la Orden de N.M.S. Clara. Fundadora, y primera abadessa de las Descalcas de Manila en Philipinas ..., 1662 : (Madre Geronima de la Asuncion de la Orden de N.M.S. Clara)
Sánchez, Cayetano. "La orden de Santa Clara in Filipinas y China" in Verdad y Vida, 1994, p. 379-400 (Madre Jerónima de la Asunción; she was the first missionary of the Poor Clares to do work in the Orient and founder of the first Catholic monastery in Manila, known as the Saint Clare in Intramuros; she was born Jerónima Yañez de la Fuente in Toledo, Spain May 9, 1555; she arrived in the Philippines in 1621; she died in the convent she founded on October 22, 1630)