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Anna Maria Rubatto was born on February 14, 1844 in Carmagnola, Turin, Sardinia into a family of eight children. Her father died when Anna Maria was just four years old. After her mother died when Anna was nineteen, she moved to Turin where she became friends with a noblewoman named Marianna Scoffone.
With Marianna, Anna Maria began working as a home missionary teaching catechism and visiting the sick in the Cottolengo Hospital. Anna Maria worked with Marianna for the next nineteen years until Marianna died in 1882.
One day, however, an event took place in a construction site that changed the course of Anna Maria’s life. At the site, a stone fell and struck a worker. Anna Maria, always ready to help those in need, jumped in to help the worker. Anna Maria treated the worker’s wound. The sisters of the local convent watched what had happened, and they determined that this was a sign that God wanted Anna Maria to be one of them. So, Anna Maria joined the convent and became known as “Maria Francesca of Jesus.” On the order of the bishop, Sister Maria became the superior of the group. In time, the order became known as the Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto.
In 1892, Mother Rubatto traveled to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay to start her order there, and later she did the same in Argentina and in the rain forests of Brazil. Mother Rubatto traveled from Europe to South America seven times to open 18 Capuchin houses in 20 years.
On August 6, 1904, at the age of 60, Mother Rubatto died of cancer in Montevideo. She was canonized on May 15, 2022. Saint Anna Maria Rubatto’s feast day is August 6, and she is a patron saint of the Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto.
