Saint Pauline

I was born in 1865 as Amabile Visintainer in a poor area in what it is today Northern Italy. When I was 10 years old, my family emigrated to Brazil, in search for a better life. The Catholic faith was at the center of my family’s life. I attended religion classes, received my first Communion and helped in the chapel. At the age of 15, together with a friend I helped to take care of a woman who was dying and had no one in her life. This was the first step toward the founding of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. I received the name of Sister Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. Many women felt the call to join our Congregation to work and to pray together. I was elected Mother Superior. Together we established other convents in various cities. We took care of orphans, the elderly,  and former slaves... I died in 1942.