Blessed Matilde del Sagrado Corazón Téllez Robles (30 May 1841 - 17 December 1902) was a Spanish

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 Roman Catholic nun

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 and the foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of the Church.

Biography

Matilde Telléz Robles was born on 30 May 1841 in Robledillo de la Vera

Robledillo de la Vera

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, Spain

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, the second of four children to Félix Telléz Gomez and Basilea Robles Ruiz. They moved to Béjar

Béjar

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 in 1851.

As an adult, Matilde founded a religious institute dedicated to the Eucharistic adoration

Eucharistic adoration

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 and caring for the sick and needy. Matilde opened a school

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 in the Province of Badajoz after being offered a house there.

On 19 March 1884, Bishop Pedro Casas y Souto of Plasencia raised the Institute to a Religious Congregation of Diocesan Rite. In 1889, a new foundations was opened in Cáceres

Cáceres, Spain

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. Other foundations were later opened in Trujillo, Almendralejo

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, Los Santos de Maimona

Los Santos de Maimona

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, Villaverde de Burguilios and in Béjar

Béjar

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.

On 17 December 1902, Mother Matilde died after suffering from a stroke

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two days earlier.