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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Italian-Indian social worker}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Leonarda Casiraghi<br />
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| birth_name = Angela Casiraghi<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|10|18|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Biassono]], [[Italy]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|08|27|1922|10|18|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Dharwad]], [[Karnataka]], India<br />
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| citizenship = Italy (former)<br/>India<br />
| occupation = Catholic missionary<br>Social worker<br />
| yearsactive = 1955–2011<br />
| known for = Our Lady of Lourdes Charitable Hospital<br />
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] (1998)<br />
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'''Leonarda Casiraghi''' (born '''Angela Casiraghi'''), popularly known as '''Doddamma''', was an Italian-born naturalised Indian Catholic missionary and social worker, known for her medical service in [[Dharwad]], in the south Indian state of [[Karnataka]].<ref name="Sr Leonarda Angela Casiraghi Laid to Rest - A Tribute">{{cite web |url=https://www.daijiworld.com/chan/obituaryDisplay.aspx?obituaryID=4208 |title=Padmashree Sr Leornarda Casiraghi (89), Dharwad |publisher=Daiji World |access-date=27 October 2015 }}</ref> She founded a small medical dispensary in [[Dharwad]] in 1958, which later grew to become a full-fledged hospital by name, ''Our Lady of Lourdes Charitable Hospital''.<ref name="Our Lady of Lourdes">{{cite web | url=http://lourdessondwd.sccg.in/history.html | title=Our Lady of Lourdes | publisher=Our Lady of Lourdes Charitable Hospital | date=2015 | access-date=27 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="itcitd">{{cite web |url=https://www.ilcittadinomb.it/news/senza-categoria/biassono-morta-in-indiasuor-leonarda-casiraghi/ |title=Biassono, morta in Indiasuor Leonarda Casiraghi |publisher=Il Cittadino MB |date=2 September 2011}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Born in [[Biassono]], Casiraghi joined the Novitiate of Bergamo of the Sisters of Charity at the age of 23.<ref name="itcitd"/> She came to India in 1955 and worked in [[Mangalore]] and [[Hyderabad district, India|Hyderabad]] for three years before founding the medical facility in Dharwad.<ref name="Sr Leonarda Angela Casiraghi Laid to Rest - A Tribute" /> She then at the time of her vocation decided to take the religious name of ''Sister Leonarda''. A member of the ''[[Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa (SCCG)|Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa]]'' congregation, she was the administrator of the hospital and its sister concern, ''Our Lady of Lourdes School of Nursing'', since their inception.<ref name="Sister of Charity">{{cite web | url=http://www.dwd.sccg.in/Network_KA_Dharwad.htm | title=Sister of Charity | publisher=Sister of Charity | date=2015 | access-date=27 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223321/http://www.dwd.sccg.in/Network_KA_Dharwad.htm | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> She was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]] by the Government of India, in 1998, for her services to the society<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref><br />
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Casiraghi died on 27 August 2011, at Dharwad.<ref name="Sr Leonarda Angela Casiraghi Laid to Rest - A Tribute" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa (SCCG)]]<br />
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