Dos historias uruguayas: la “Virgen de los Treinta y Tres Orientales”; la figura de la Beata Madre Maria Francesca Rubatto y su amistad con el médico de familia Giovanni Antonio Crispo Brandis de Codrongianos
Keywords:
Virgin of the Thirty-Three, Mother Maria Francesca Rubatto, first Uruguayan saint, Juan Antonio Crispo Brandis, Italian Hospital of Montevideo, Uruguay, Sardinia, José Batlle y OrdonezAbstract
This essay deals with the Uruguayan stories of the “Virgin of the Thirty-Three” and the first Beatified Uruguayan woman, Mother Maria Francesca Rubatto, an Italian laywoman, from Piedmont, consecrated and fully devoted to work in her volontariato to help the poorest people of Montevideo. He was also a friend of the Sardinian physician, Juan Antonio Crispo Brandis, who migrated to Uruguay in the year 1872 a nd initially supported her to face the difficulties arisen in the Italian Hospital of Montevideo, where Crispo Brandis used to work, and assisted her in the social work she carried out throughout the poorest neighbourhoods near to the capital cityDownloads
Published
2012-12-31
Issue
Section
DOSSIER - Atti del convegno internazionale 1840-2010 SARDEGNA – URUGUAY. Dai 170 anni di amicizia e di rapporti...
License
Note on the copyright
The Copyright Notice below must be included with the journal information and in the metadata for each published article. Although every journal can freely determine the nature and scope of the copyright agreement with its authors, the Public Knowledge Project recommends the use of a Creative Commons license. For these purposes, an example is provided and may be copy and pasted in the space below for those journals that (a) offer open access, (b) offer deferred open access or (c) do not offer open access.