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† Saint of the Day † (July 6) ✠ St. Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa ✠ Religious and Founder: Born: January 10, 1889 Madrid, Kingdom of Spain Died: July 6, 1943 (Aged 54) Buenos Aires, Argentina Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church Beatified: September 27, 1992 Pope John Paul II Canonized: October 14, 2018 Pope Francis Feast: July 6 Patronage: Missionaries of the Crusade Saint Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa – in religious Nazaria of Saint Teresa of Jesus – was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Missionaries of the Crusade. Mesa immigrated from Spain to Mexico where she joined a religious order that saw her minister in Bolivia where she remained for most of her life. She served brief stints in Spain to spread the religious order she founded after she left her own order and relocated to Argentina where she later died. St. Nazaria Ignacia faced many obstacles in trying to follow God's will for her life. Nazaria Ignacia was born on January 10, 1889, to a fairly w