Saint Joaquina de Vedruna (or Joaquima in Catalan) (16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854) was a Spanish nun founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Charity. She was born into a noble family. In 1799 she married the lawyer and landowner Teodoro de Mas (from Vic in the Barcelona province of Spain) with whom she had nine children. Her husband died in 1816 and she moved with her children to their estate in Vic. Here she began her charitable activities with the sick and young women.
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