Laura Vicuña
Chilean child who was beatified by the Catholic Church (1891–1904)
Feast: 22 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino was born in Santiago de Chile on 5 April 1891. Her father died when she was two, and she moved with her mother to Argentina, where she went to the Salesian Sisters' school. In 1902 she privately vowed poverty, chastity and obedience.
Cheerful but brave enough to face the violent designs of a man who preyed on her, at thirteen she offered her life to God for her mother's conversion. She died on 22 January 1904, the most generous and best-loved girl in the school.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A girl of thirteen who offered her life for her mother's conversion.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Laura Vicuña
- Wikidata Q272702 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Laura Vicuña (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.