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Tag: Who was Joaquina Vedruna de Mas?
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Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
St Joaquina (1783 – 1854) was born into a noble family at Barcelona, Spain. She married a lawyer and landowner and they had nine children. Around the time of her husband’s death, she moved to their family estate in Vic and, using her family wealth, started tending to the local sick and poor. Encouraged by…