Feast day: April 12
St. Teresa of the Andes
A Chilean girl who entered the Carmelite cloister and, foreseeing her early death, offered her short life to God, dying of typhus at nineteen — Chile's first saint.
She was a Carmelite for less than a year and died at nineteen, yet her letters and joy made her the most beloved saint of her country.
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