Venerable Serafina Cinque

Noeme or Noemy Cinque, in religion Serafina Cinque, born on January 31, 1913, in Urucurituba, Brazil, and died on October 21, 1988, in Manaus, was a Brazilian religious sister of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ. She taught and provided nursing care in the Amazon, notably in Altamira from 1971 to 1987, where she founded shelters and care centers. She was nicknamed the Mother Teresa of Altamira and the White Angel of the Trans-Amazonian Highway. Recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church, her feast day is October 21.