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Mother Mariana of the Purification (Lisbon November 5 1623 – Beja December 8 1695) was a nun of the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance who having been born in Lisbon Portugal and lived and professed her religious vows at the Carmelite Convent of Our Lady of Hope in Beja Portugal died with the odor of sanctity.During her life she reported several apparitions of the Child Jesus and left many autobiographical writings with ascetic interest.In the 19th century Bishop Dom António Xavier de Sousa Monteiro made the exhumation of Mother Mariana’s previously analyzed and confirmed as incorrupt by an inspection of Fray Manuel of the Cenacle and relocated it to the Church of Salvador in Beja which is still in the side chapel of the main altar.