nourish them in a special manner with the sweetest nectar of her compassion. Their faultless and fervent lives, which we have witnessed, up to the time they died, move us to believe so." Quite prophetic were the words of Fray Benito de San Pablo, OAR who spoke of them: Living under God's watercourse, these striving Beatas may increase in number in God's due time and cheerfully hover over the branches of the Biblical mustard. From the Beaterio de San Sebastian de Calumpang started the growth of the Congregation. The foundation which the Sisters had laid on solid rock continued to flourish and develop even after they were called to their eternal reward-Mother Cecelia Rosa on 31 July 1731 and Sor Dionisia on 12 October 1732. The Congregation of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters, which originated in 1719, is he fruit of the missionary zeal of the Augustinian Recollect Fathers in the Philippines. It was canonically established as a Religious Congregation on August 19, 1929 and was declared of juridical autonomy by Pope Paul VI on November 20, 1970. Death Dionisia died in 1732, a year after her sister Cecilia. Servant of God On September 10, 1990, the causes for the beatification of the Talangpaz sisters were opened, bestowed with the "Nulla Osta" and thereby giving them the titles "Servants of God." References Hagiographycircle Website Kapangpangans @ geocities Recoletas. org 1691 births 1732 deaths Catholic Church in the Philippines 18th-century Filipino Roman Catholic nuns Filipino Servants of God Founders of Catholic religious communities People from Bulacan