Overview

• The Roman Martyrology and the general calendar commemorate her on August 23 after post–Vatican II adjustments moved the date closer to her 1617 death.
• Born Isabel Flores de Oliva in Lima in 1586, she became a Dominican tertiary known for prayer, penance and charity, and died of tuberculosis at 31.
• Tradition holds that her prayers during a 1615 Dutch corsair threat coincided with the attackers’ withdrawal from Lima.
• She is patroness of Peru, the Americas and the Philippines, and is invoked by florists and gardeners, tuberculosis sufferers and certain police and armed forces.
• Other commemorations for August 23 include San Asterio de Egea, San Felipe Benizi, Santa Juana Antida Thouret, San Apolonio and Beato Guillermo Freeman.