In 1617, at Lima, St. Rose. As an adolescent, she took St. Catherine of Siena (April 29) as her model. She followed some of Catherine’s more extreme ascetical practices, and like Catherine became a Dominican tertiary. She set up an infirmary in one room of her family’s house and cared for poor people there.
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