Her name was Maria Antonia de Paz y Figueroa. However, she was better known by her Quechua name, Mama Antula. She lived in Argentina during the18th century and was beatified in 2016. Mama Antula came from a noble family, but quickly abandoned the comfortable life. <\/p>\n
NUNZIA LOCATELLI <\/strong> Nunzia Locatelli investigated her life and was fascinated by this woman's rebel-spirit during very difficult years.<\/p>\n She says in the Jesuit house Mama Antula dedicated herself to receiving and helping orphaned girls, abandoned women and prostitutes. <\/p>\n However, in 1767, King Charles III expelled the Jesuits from Spain and its colonies. As a consequence, the house was closed. <\/p>\n The departure of the Society of Jesus also left a great void for many people who benefitted spiritually. Mama Antula responded to this by organizing clandestine retreats, with the permission of the bishops. <\/p>\n Nunzia Locatelli found hundreds of people attended these retreats. As a result, Jesuit spirituality continued to live on within the country during these years of exile. <\/p>\n NUNZIA LOCATELLI <\/strong> Mama Antula had the gift of reaching all kinds of people. The biography even shows how she advised even the most powerful people of her time. <\/p>\n NUNZIA LOCATELLI <\/strong> Although the process of beatification of Mama Antula was opened in 1905, it was stopped for many decades. However, the then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio re-launched it in 1999. <\/p>\n The promoters of the cause for canonization have presented a miracle attributed to Mama Antula. This could lead the pope to declare her a saint. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 28, 2019. \u201cIf we now have a Jesuit pope, Pope Francis, I believe we owe a very small credit to Mama Antula,\u201d says her biographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5dfE2my2I6g","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmamaantulaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmamaantulaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCo-author, \u201cMama Antula. The most rebellious woman of her time\u201d
\n\u201cShe came from a very wealthy family of encomenderos, Spanish origin. However, at the age of 15 she decided to leave her family and go to the beaterio run by the Jesuit fathers.\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nCo-author, \u201cMama Antula. The most rebellious woman of her time\u201d
\n\u201cShe was a woman of action. I'm not saying she took over, but she ensured the spiritual exercises stayed in Argentina. If we now have a Jesuit pope, Pope Francis, I believe we owe a very small credit to Mama Antula. This is because she allowed those values to remain valid, alive and important.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCo-author, \u201cMama Antula. The most rebellious woman of her time\u201d
\n\u201cEveryone turned to Mama Antulla for advice when faced with a problem. These were people from all types of social classes. From rich to peasant, to Indians and blacks, as they were called at the time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n