4 Religious Figures, Doctor Are Beatified
Pope John Paul II beatified four founders of religious organizations and a Hungarian doctor.
They are Pierre Bonhomme, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary; Maria Dolores Rodriguez Sopena, founder of the Dolores Sopena Catechetical Institutes; Maria Caridad Brader, who founded the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate; Juana Maria Condesa Lluch, founder of the Congregation of the Handmaids of Mary Immaculate; and Laszlo Batthyany-Strattmann, whose piety led him to treat the poor for free.
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