Blandina Segale

Blandina Segale, SC, (1850-1941) was born Rosa Maria Segale in Italy, and when she was a child of four, she emigrated with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio. She joined the Catholic Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati and as a nun worked with thepoor, the sick, immigrants, prisoners, Hispanics, and Native Americans while in Colorado, Ohio, and in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque areas of the New Mexico Territory.