Date of Birth:
Saturday, March 22, 1924
Date of Death:
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Relationship to the Society:
RSCJ
In 1973, after Religious of the Sacred Heart were no longer cloistered, Bienvenida and and a group of RSCJ left for Naranja in Homestead, Florida, where they worked with migrants at Saint Anne’s Mission. In 1979 the community moved to LaBelle, Florida where Bienvenda continued her educational and pastoral outreach to migrants continued until the Society closed the community in 2004. (To read more about Bienvenida's work with migrants click the link under her picture.)