Saint Pauline Research Paper

For the purpose of this paper I am researching and reflecting on Saint Pauline Mother of the agonizing hearts of Jesus. The reason I have selected Saint Pauline is because she was a suffering diabetic that followed in the work of Jesus Christ. Pauline is also the name I received when I was confirmed in 2012. Pauline dedicated her life to serving the ill and less fortunate, which I feel I can relate to through nursing.
Mother Pauline was born on December 16, 1865 in Vigolo Vattaro in the Province of Trent in Italy. Mother Pauline was born with the name Amabile Lucia Visintainer, and was the daughter of Antonio Napoleone Visintainer and Anna Pianezzer. Both of her parents were practicing catholic but lived in poverty in a poor section of Italy.
Amabile and her friend Virginia Rosa Nicolodi began create the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception which was approved by Jose de Camargo Barros, bishop of Curitiba. The two women took their religious vows in December 1890 and this is when Amabile took the name Sister Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. The Congregation continued to grow as more women joined in the work and prayerful lives of the Sisters. With Pauline’s leadership convents were established in other cities and became larger. Pauline wrote her Spiritual Testament: “Be humble. Trust always and a great deal in divine Providence; never never must you let yourselves be discouraged, despite contrary winds. I say it again: trust in God and Mary Immaculate; be faithful and forge
In 1938 she began to lose her eyesight and a cut to her finger when chopping wood failed to heal and turned into gangrene until she had to have it amputated. She later had to have her whole right arm amputated do to the poor healing and decreased tissue perfusion as a result of diabetes. After these surgeries she lost her vision completely and then died from lung cancer and diabetes. She spent the last year of her life confined to bed. A simple funeral was held at her motherhouse in accordance with her wishes. Furthermore, Saint Pauline’s feast day is July 9; she was venerated February 8, 1988, beatified October 18, 1991, and canonized May 19, 2002. The work of the Congregation still continues to thrive today in South America, Africa, and Europe. Saint Pauline is considered the Patroness of diabetes and many pray to her when facing the life-threating