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1874–1949 Colombia

Laura Montoya, in full María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui (26 May 1874 – 21 October 1949), religious name Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, was a Colombian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena (1914).

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I needed intrepid, valiant women, inflamed in the love of God, who could assimilate their lives to those of the poor inhabitants of the forest, to lead them towards God.

I saw myself in God and as if he were enveloping me in his fatherhood, making me the mother, in the most intense way, of the infidels. They hurt me like real children.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laura Montoya (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.