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| {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} | | #REDIRECT [[Leonarda Casiraghi]] |
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| | birth_place = Italy
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| | death_date = 27 August 2011
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| | death_place = [[Dharwad]], [[Karnataka]], India
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| | occupation = Catholic missionary<br>Social worker
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| | yearsactive = 1955–2011
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| | known for = Our Lady of Lourdes Charitable Hospital
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| '''Leonarda 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=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=113868 | title=Sr Leonarda Angela Casiraghi Laid to Rest - A Tribute | publisher=Daiji World | date=29 August 2011 | 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> 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" /> 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://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>
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| Casiraghi died on 27 August 2011, at Dharwad.<ref name="Sr Leonarda Angela Casiraghi Laid to Rest - A Tribute" />
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| * [[Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa (SCCG)]]
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