St. Rose of Lima
by Sister Mary Alphonsus, O.SS.R.

She was the first canonized Saint of the New World! Exquisitely beautiful, she refused to marry and she practiced heroic charity and severe penances while living at home as a 3rd   Order Dominican. She cared for the sick,  obtained miraculous cures and became a mystic. She was canonized only 54 years after her death and is one of the most popular saints.