Word: crocifissa
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...MARIA CROCIFISSA DI ROSA (1813-55) left convent school at 17 to take over her wealthy father's silk factory at Brescia, Italy, where she saw to the spiritual and material welfare of the workers. In the cholera epidemic of 1836 she nursed the sick, which led to her foundation of the Servants of Charity...
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