Saint Rose of Lima, in Peru, the patroness of South America and the Philippines, was the first saint canonized who was born in the New World. Her great model was Saint Catherine of Siena. Her baptismal name was Isabel, but because of a miraculous rose seen over her head one day and because of the beautiful and flower-like charm of her face, she was called Rose. And her bishop, at her Confirmation, gave her that name. Her full name, religiously, was Rose of Saint Mary, a name miraculously given her by Our Blessed Lady one day as she prayed. Saint Rose of Lima was a Dominican of the Third Order. She died when she was only thirty-one years old. Through her intercession a dead person was raised to life. Five wonderful Catholic saints lived in Lima, in Peru, in the first half of the seventeenth century. They are (and their feast days and the year they died): Saint Rose of Lima, August 30, 1617; Saint Turibius, her bishop, March 23, 1606; Saint Francis Solano, July 14, 1610; Saint Martin de Porres, November 3, 1639; and Saint John Massias, September 18, 1645.
Saint Rose of Lima with Child Jesus, by Anonymous Cusco School (1680 – 1700) source
