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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Long moments of silence and listening to God's Word are some of the many lessons contemplative women can give other Catholics, Pope Francis said. "In this world that is always full of things, words, news, a whole industry of external communication interior communication, in silence, is so necessary," he said during an audience at the Vatican Nov. 16. He spoke to people taking part in an international conference sponsored by the Pontifical International Marian Academy on the Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda.
Mother María Berenice receives the Eucharist during a period of illness. / Hermanitas de la Anunciación.Vatican City, Oct 13, 2021 / 06:22 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Wednesday approved a miracle obtained through the intercession of Venerable María Berenice Duque Hencker, a Colombian nun described as an entrepreneurial figure with "great mettle."Mother María Berenice, as she was known, was the founder of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Annunciation in Medellín, Colombia. She died in 1993 at the age of 94, and her congregation continues to be active in Colombia and Venezuela.Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, the late archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela, described her as having an "ardent apostolic zeal."Urosa told ACI Prensa, CNA s Spanish-language news partner, in May that the nun, who was born in 1898, "felt the vocation to religious life very young, and responded in 1917 to the Lord s call, entering the Congregation of the Dominicans of the Presentati