In\u00e9s Arango Vel\u00e1squez was a missionary in Ecuador. Since the age of 17, she was a sister in the congregation of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters, where she left a strong legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BILMA FREIRE Despite her strong missionary spirit, Sister In\u00e9s began her vocation as a teacher:<\/p>\n\n\n\n BILMA FREIRE After 20 years as a teacher, she was sent on a mission to Ecuador, and five months later, she moved to a village on the banks of the Napo River, to an Indigenous population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BILMA FREIRE Her Capuchin sisters told us the story of her death. Sister In\u00e9s went with Capuchin Bishop Alejandro Labaka to an Indigenous region threatened by oil companies.It was a remote and isolated region. The native population mistook them for oil workers and killed them with spears. These spears were three and a half meters long. The Capuchin bishop received 15 wounds, and Sister In\u00e9s received three. Now, 38 years after their deaths, the congregations of both missionaries are working to see them both recognized as saints. Their story highlights the lives of two people fully dedicated to serving the most vulnerable. In\u00e9s Arango Vel\u00e1squez was a missionary in Ecuador. Since the age of 17, she was a sister in the congregation of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters, where she left a strong legacy. BILMA FREIRECongregation of Capuchin Tertiary SistersBoth during her formation and later while living in community, the sisters remember her this way: a dynamic sister, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":79316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YZHAvEVy94g","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmonjacapuchinoseng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmonjacapuchinosint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79319"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79321,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79319\/revisions\/79321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Congregation of Capuchin Tertiary Sisters
<\/strong>Both during her formation and later while living in community, the sisters remember her this way: a dynamic sister, a leader, creative, positive, collaborative, always willing to help, full of faith, much prayer, and always with that missionary spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congregation of Capuchin Tertiary Sisters
<\/strong>For 20 years, she carried out her mission as an educator. This contrasted with her desire, because she wanted to be a missionary, but the obedience given to her by her superiors was to be a teacher. However, In\u00e9s never lived her role as a teacher with complaints, resistance, or lamentation\u2026 instead, she made the most of her time as a teacher to live out her missionary spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congregation of Capuchin Tertiary Sisters
<\/strong>We\u2019re talking about going into the jungle, we\u2019re talking about having to travel by canoe, having to go to an inhospitable place, having to overcome difficulties with mosquitoes, with paths, rivers, plants, food\u2026 and they went with great love; they did it with incredible generosity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
BILMA FREIRE
Congregation of Capuchin Tertiary Sisters
<\/strong>They were declared\u2014well, we consider them martyrs, but it cannot be officially recognized as martyrdom because the Indigenous people did not act out of hatred for the faith. So, their cause has taken a different path in the canonization process, called the \u201coffering of life\u201d \u2014 a category approved by Pope Francis in 2017 as a way of reaching sainthood. So they are on that path, and for that reason, a miracle is required.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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