Beaterio de Terciarias Agustinas Recoletas

The Beaterio de Terciarias Agustinas Recoletas was the oldest convent for the Order of Augustinian Recollects meeting the material and spiritual needs of pious women in the early 18th-century Philippines. The beaterio was founded by Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz and Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz, two biological and religious Filipino sisters from Barangay San Miguel in Calumpit, Bulacan. The convent's name was later changed to Beaterio de San Sebastián de Calumpang, now the Congregation of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters. It is one of the three continuing congregation founded for native women in Asia after the Amantes de la Croix founded in Vietnam in 1670, and the Beaterio de la Compañía de Jesús (now the Religious of the Virgin Mary) founded in Manila in 1684. The original site of the beaterio was located inside Saint Rita College - Manila, one of the first three houses of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters, before it wasdamaged.

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