Blandina Segale, more commonly known as Sister Blandina (23 May 1850
â€" 23 February 1941) was an Italian-born American Sister of Charity
of Cincinnati and missionary, who became widely known through her
service on the American frontier in the late 19th century. During her
missionary work, she met, among others, Billy the Kid and the leaders
of the Native American tribes of the Apache and Comanche. She served
as an educator and social worker who worked in Ohio, Colorado and New
Mexico, assisting Native Americans, Hispanic settlers and European
immigrants.The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe has opened a
process to canonize Segale, for which it has received the permission
of the Holy See. For this, she is honored by the Catholic Church with
the title of Servant of God. She is the first individual in New
Mexico's 400-year history with the Roman Catholic Church to have a
cause opened for their beatification and canonization.She was born
Rosa Maria Segale in 1850 in Cicagna, Genoa, then part of the Kingdom
of Sardinia. She emigrated at age four with her family to the United
States, where they settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. She had felt called
from an early age to join the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. She
did so at the age of sixteen, when she was clothed in the habit of the
Sisters and given the religious name of Sister Blandina, in memory of
St. Blandina, martyred in 177 during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. On
December 8, 1868, she completed the novitiate and professed religious
vows for the first time. Her sister, Maria Maddelena, decided to
follow her younger sister's example, and also joined the Sisters of
Charity, where she was given the name of Sister Justina.Segale was
sent to teach in the schools of Steubenville and Dayton. It was there
that she received notice on 27 November 1872, at the age of twenty-two
years, she was being sent as serve as a missionary in Trinidad. At
first thinking she was being sent to the Caribbean, she soon learned
that her assignment was in Trinidad, Colorado, where the Sisters of
Charity of Cincinnati had recently opened a mission. Sister Blandina Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter