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"Encourage one
another, and may
your mutual good
example speak
louder than any
words.”
Life Sketch of Sister Blandina (Maria Rosa) Segale
Written by Sisters Judith Metz and Victoria Marie Forde
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Blandina Segale—courageous and dauntless, understanding and kind, determined and blunt, with common sense and a sense of humor, dedicated and prayerful—became the most recognized name of all Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, especially in the Southwest and in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as in her own native Cicagna, Italy.
Her story began there in the mid-19th century and is still being told in the 21st century.
Maria Rosa Segale was born Jan. 23, 1850, in Cicagna, Italy, a small mountain village near Genoa, where her peasant father, Francesco, and her mother, Giovanna Malatesta, a weaver, worked hard to provide and care for their growing family. Following dreams for a better future, the parents with five children immigrated to the United States in 1854