María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa or "Mama Antula" will become the first saint of Argentina next Sunday. She was born in Santiago del Estero and traveled through several provinces of the country.
At the age of fifteen, she challenged her father and warned him that she would not marry or be a nun. She joined the Jesuits and became a saint, collaborating in the promotion and organization of the famous spiritual exercises of the founder of that religious order: Saint Ignatius of Loyola.