Camila Rolón

Camila Rolón (religious name Camila of Saint Joseph, 18 July 1842 – 16 February 1913) was an Argentine religious sister and the founder of the Poor Sisters of Saint Joseph.

Rolón survived a cholera outbreak in Buenos Aires in the 1870s that claimed her mother and brother and after this made attempts to enter either the Capuchin Poor Clares or the Carmelites. In 1880, she moved to Mercedes where she founded an orphanage that would later evolve into a religious congregation. This congregation spread to the point that the motherhouse relocated to Rome as did she and it was there that she died. their aim was to discern whether her writings adhered to doctrine or not and a decree issued on 28 January 1959 confirmed her writings were approved. The formal introduction to the cause came under Pope Paul VI on 13 March 1975 while an apostolic process was later held from 8 June 1977 until 31 July 1978. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints later validated these processes in Rome on 13 November 1981 as having adhered to their regulations for causes. Rolón was declared to be venerable on 2 April 1993 after Pope John Paul II confirmed that Sr. Camila of Saint Joseph lived a life of heroic virtue. Her beatification depends upon papal confirmation of a miracle that is often a healing that science and medicine fail to explain. The diocese that one such healing originated in investigated the case and the process for this concluded on 5 August 2016. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu sent a letter to Bishop Santiago Olivera in 2019 stating that two medical experts had to meet to assess if the case was credible before sending it to the medical board for evaluation. The postulator for the cause is Silvia Mónica Correale.