St. Mariana de Paredes
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Patron: of Ecuador; Americas; bodily ills; loss of parents; people rejected by religious orders; sick people; sickness
Birth: 1618
Death: 1645
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Solitary and the "Lily of Quito," Ecuador. She was born Mariana de Paredes y Flores and called herself Mariana of Jesus. Born in Quito she was a hermitess in her brother-in-law's residence. Mariana offered herself as a victim for the city during an earthquake in 1645 and died. She was canonized in 1950.