{"id":29934,"date":"2025-10-31T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vedruna.org\/isabel-raposos-diamond-jubilee-75-years-of-love-and-vedruna-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:42:30","slug":"isabel-raposos-diamond-jubilee-75-years-of-love-and-vedruna-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vedruna.org\/en\/isabel-raposos-diamond-jubilee-75-years-of-love-and-vedruna-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabel Raposo’s Diamond Jubilee: 75 years of love and Vedruna mission."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The community of Casa Santa Joaquina de Le\u00f3n celebrated the 75th anniversary of Isabel Raposo’s religious life.<\/p>\n\n

The Diamond Jubilee was joined from afar by numerous sisters from other places, especially Colombia<\/strong>, where Isabel Raposo arrived in 1974 and where she remained for 42 years, working mainly with women, girls and children. She had previously spent 12 years in Venezuela carrying out similar activities. <\/p>\n\n

In 2017, during a visit to her family, in Benavides de \u00d3rbigo (Le\u00f3n), Isabel had a fall and, due to medical prescription, could not return to her community El Consuelo, in Bogot\u00e1. Colombia – she has insistently repeated since then – is always in her heart. <\/p>\n\n

“We know how dedicated your life has been,” said one of the congratulatory messages from Colombia. <\/p>\n\n

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“In what a way you conquered all the ladies, who love you, and all the sisters, who love you very much and remember you!”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Congratulations also came from Vitoria, where Isabel Raposo professed her religious vows: <\/p>\n\n

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“It is an immense joy,” a sister was telling him from there. “I want to join in your thanksgiving to God. It is a feast for you, for your dear community, and for so many people to whom you did good and sowed in their hearts the desire to better themselves, to learn a trade, to improve their families… And the love for Joaquina de Vedruna, which you also instilled in them. You have been a Vedruna faithful to all, and very missionary, going to the places where your presence was needed in Colombia. Congratulations! Thanks be to God! Thank you for everything!” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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