SANTA ROSA DE LIMA (Isabel Flores de Oliva, Lima, 1586 - 1617) POR: LIC. MAYORCA GUERRA patarcocha.blogspot.com Peruvian religious of the order of the Dominicans who was the first saint of America. After having shown signs of intense spiritual precocity, at the age of twenty he took the habit of Dominican tertiary, and devoted his life to the attention of the sick and children and to ascetic practices, the fame of his sanctity soon extending. Santa Rosa de Lima Patron of the Americas Venerated already in life by her mystical visions and by the miracles that were attributed to her, in little more than half a century she was canonized by the Catholic Church, which declared her patron saint of Lima and Peru, and shortly after America, the Philippines and the East Indies. Biography Santa Rosa de Lima was born on April 20, 1586 in the vicinity of the Hospital del Espíritu Santo in the city of Lima, then capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru. ...