St. Rose of Lima
Born Isabel Flores de Oliva in colonial Lima, a Dominican tertiary who lived in severe penance in her parents' garden and became the first canonized saint of the Americas.
Canonized 1671
St. Rose of Lima (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Sources
- General Roman Calendar, 23 August — 'St Rose of Lima, Virgin'. Liturgy Office, England and Wales. https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/Info/General-Roman-Calendar.pdf
- USCCB Liturgical Calendar 2027, 23 August — 'Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin' (optional memorial). https://www.usccb.org/resources/2027cal.pdf (The 2026 calendar omits it because 23 August 2026 falls on a Sunday and the memorial is suppressed.)
- Catholic Encyclopedia (Herbermann, 1907-1913), 'St. Rose of Lima' — born 20 April 1586; received the Dominican habit in her twentieth year; 'beatified by Clement IX, in 1667, and canonized in 1671 by Clement X'; the first American to be so honoured. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13192c.htm
- DEATH DATE NOT ASSERTED. The Catholic Encyclopedia gives 30 August 1617; most modern sources give 24 August 1617. Thirty August is the date her feast is still kept in Peru and much of Latin America, which is a plausible route for the discrepancy. Tier 2 stores no death date, so nothing here depends on resolving it.
- READ_MORE: the Order of Preachers pages were considered and NOT used. english.op.org states she was 'proclaimed a saint by Pope Clement IX' in 1671, conflating the 1667 beatification under Clement IX with the 1671 canonization under Clement X; the op.org liturgical page returns 404.