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Maria Crescentia Hss , T.O.R., was a contemplative nun of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. In 1900, she was beatified by Pope Leo XIII and was canonized in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.

She was born Anna Hss onOctober 1682 in Kaufbeuren, in Bavaria, Germany, to Matthias Hss and his wife, Lucia Hoermann, the sixth of their eight children. Only three of the children survived into adulthood.

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