St. Paula Frassinetti

Foundress of the Congregation St. Dorothea

Paula Frassinetti was born in Genoa, Italy into a Catholic family. At nineteen, she left home to live with her brother, who was a priest, to fulfill the call she felt toward a life of servitude to God.

Paula often assisted her brother in teaching poor children at his parish, and soon realized her vocation as an educator.

In 1834, she and six other women began a school for the poor, and became known as the Sisters of St. Dorothy.

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