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Nun, Founder - Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd
[Franciscanas Misioneras de la Madre del Divino Pastor] (1827 - 1886)
Feast / Memorial Day: July 03
Patronage: Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd
Also known as Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta, Maria Ana Mogas

+ SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:

Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta was born in Granollers, a textile and farming city about thirty miles from Barcelona in Spain's Catalonia region on 13 January 1827. She was the third of four children of Llorenç Mogas – a farmer and innkeeper – and Magdalena Fontcuberta. She was baptized mere hours after her birth and made her First Communion either at the age of six or seven. Her father died when she was seven and her mother only survived him by six years.

After her parents died, her childless and widowed paternal aunt Dona Maria Mogas – who was also her godmother – raised Fontcuberta. The teenager joined many parish activities at Santa Maria del Mar, and the parish priest Fr Mosen Gorgas became her confessor.

During the political tumult in Barcelona in 1848, Fontcuberta met two nuns of the Capuchin congregation living together in a rented flat, and through them met Fr Josep Tous Soler. The Bishop of Vic Luciano Casadevall had allowed them to open a school in Ripoll. Impressed by Father Soler's charisma as well, as their joint dedication to the path of St Francis of Assisi , Fontcuberta decided to join the religious at the school, and left all she had to follow this calling.

Thus, in 1850, despite her confessor's concerns, Fontcuberta went to Ripoll, and was formally clothed in the habit of the Capuchins of the Divine Shepherdess. The school opened on 27 May 1850. Despite still being in the novitiate and lacking a formal teaching diploma, less than a month later (on 13 June 1850), Fontcuberta was named the school's superior and formally became such in September 1851. Nonetheless, she returned to the cloistered life in October 1851 to complete her novitiate. On 25 January 1851 she made her profession into the order. She received her teaching diploma in March 1853, then assumed her new religious name of "María Ana" on 25 June.

Fontcuberta also met and discussed teaching with St Antonio Maria Claret . On 10 December 1865 she accompanied four nuns to assist Antonia de Oviedo Schöntal with her new religious congregation. In 1868 Fontcuberta led a group of religious to Spain's capital city, Madrid, where they founded a kindergarten. Despite political unrest (particularly after the assassination of the progressive Prime Minister Juan Prim in December 1870), the religious persisted in their mission to educate the city's poor and help the sick. Spain's Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo (the country's leading prelate) Cirilo de Alameda y Brea formally approved Fontcuberta's founding a new religious order, recognizing it on 16 January 1872 as the Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd.

Death and Legacy

Fontcuberta died at midnight on 3 July 1886 due to increasing seizures which she had begun suffering in 1878, and which led her to retire to Fuencarral in May 1886. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996.

Her order grew and eventually pursued recognition for the foundress. Her order was aggregated with other Franciscan Orders on 19 June 1906. As of 2005, the order included 669 religious in 105 houses in locations as diverse as Benin, Argentina and Portugal. Several sisters of the order were martyred for their faith and religious activities in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

(Wikipedia - Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta / FMMDP)

+ FURTHER READING:
All Saints Blogspot - Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta
FMMDP - Official Website / Founder / Vocations
Santopedia (Spanish) - Maria Aana Mogas Fontcuberta
...

Description
Nun, Founder - Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd
[Franciscanas Misioneras de la Madre del Divino Pastor] (1827 - 1886)
Feast / Memorial Day: July 03
Patronage: Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd
Also known as Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta, Maria Ana Mogas

+ SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:

Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta was born in Granollers, a textile and farming city about thirty miles from Barcelona in Spain's Catalonia region on 13 January 1827. She was the third of four children of Llorenç Mogas – a farmer and innkeeper – and Magdalena Fontcuberta. She was baptized mere hours after her birth and made her First Communion either at the age of six or seven. Her father died when she was seven and her mother only survived him by six years.

After her parents died, her childless and widowed paternal aunt Dona Maria Mogas – who was also her godmother – raised Fontcuberta. The teenager joined many parish activities at Santa Maria del Mar, and the parish priest Fr Mosen Gorgas became her confessor.

During the political tumult in Barcelona in 1848, Fontcuberta met two nuns of the Capuchin congregation living together in a rented flat, and through them met Fr Josep Tous Soler. The Bishop of Vic Luciano Casadevall had allowed them to open a school in Ripoll. Impressed by Father Soler's charisma as well, as their joint dedication to the path of St Francis of Assisi , Fontcuberta decided to join the religious at the school, and left all she had to follow this calling.

Thus, in 1850, despite her confessor's concerns, Fontcuberta went to Ripoll, and was formally clothed in the habit of the Capuchins of the Divine Shepherdess. The school opened on 27 May 1850. Despite still being in the novitiate and lacking a formal teaching diploma, less than a month later (on 13 June 1850), Fontcuberta was named the school's superior and formally became such in September 1851. Nonetheless, she returned to the cloistered life in October 1851 to complete her novitiate. On 25 January 1851 she made her profession into the order. She received her teaching diploma in March 1853, then assumed her new religious name of "María Ana" on 25 June.

Fontcuberta also met and discussed teaching with St Antonio Maria Claret . On 10 December 1865 she accompanied four nuns to assist Antonia de Oviedo Schöntal with her new religious congregation. In 1868 Fontcuberta led a group of religious to Spain's capital city, Madrid, where they founded a kindergarten. Despite political unrest (particularly after the assassination of the progressive Prime Minister Juan Prim in December 1870), the religious persisted in their mission to educate the city's poor and help the sick. Spain's Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo (the country's leading prelate) Cirilo de Alameda y Brea formally approved Fontcuberta's founding a new religious order, recognizing it on 16 January 1872 as the Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd.

Death and Legacy

Fontcuberta died at midnight on 3 July 1886 due to increasing seizures which she had begun suffering in 1878, and which led her to retire to Fuencarral in May 1886. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996.

Her order grew and eventually pursued recognition for the foundress. Her order was aggregated with other Franciscan Orders on 19 June 1906. As of 2005, the order included 669 religious in 105 houses in locations as diverse as Benin, Argentina and Portugal. Several sisters of the order were martyred for their faith and religious activities in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

(Wikipedia - Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta / FMMDP)

+ FURTHER READING:
All Saints Blogspot - Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta
FMMDP - Official Website / Founder / Vocations
Santopedia (Spanish) - Maria Aana Mogas Fontcuberta
...