Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello

Saint

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello
Saint; Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello
Religious
Born	2 October 1791; Langasco, Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia
Died	21 March 1858 (aged 66); Ronco Scrivia, Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	10 May 1987, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Canonized	19 May 2002, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Feast	21 March; 10 May (Diocese of Pavia);
Attributes	Religious habit
Patronage	Benedictine Sisters of Providence; Educators;

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence. Frassinello married to appease her parents in 1816 but the couple decided to lead a chaste life and both pursued a call to the religious life with Frassinello joining the Ursulines in Capriolo at Brescia. But husband and wife later reunited after setting out to establish schools for the education of girls and the pair moved back to Genoa where she founded her order in 1838 based on the Benedictine charism.

Frassinello's beatification was celebrated in 1987 and she was canonized as a saint in 2002.

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