Chiquitunga to be beatified June 23!

[Chiquitunga]

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Catholics-Celebrate-First-Beatification-of-Paraguayan-Woman-20180307-0030.html

    

Edited March 9, 2018 by Chiquitunga

[JHFamily]

What does Chiquitunga mean and why is she called this?  I've always assumed it was her name, but I have noticed in the beatification announcements that, indeed, it is not.

 

[Sister Leticia]

I'm assuming it's a pet name, from her family or the people she worked with, deriving from Chica, meaning little -and also meaning young girl. Chiquita is a diminutive - little little, so to speak, and there are variations on this in some Latin American countries (for example, chiquilla in Chile)

Until now I'd never heard of the original Chiquitunga - I'd always assumed "ours" was simply using a pet name!