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

Abstract

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 city