Bertilda Samper Acosta

{{Short description|Colombian Poor Clare nun, poet and writer}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Bertilda Samper Acosta

| image = Bertilda_Samper_Acosta.jpg

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| caption = Photograph of Sister María Ignacia.

| pseudonym = Berenice

| birth_name = Bertilda Samper Acosta

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|07|31|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bogotá, Cundinamarca,
New Granada

| death_date = {{death date and age|1910|07|31|1856|07|31|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia

| occupation = Nun

| language = Spanish

| nationality = Colombian

| period = 1880—1910

| genre = Lyric poetry

| subject = Devotionals

| movement =

| relatives = {{hide||José María Samper Agudelo (father)
Soledad Acosta Kemble (mother)
Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán (grandfather)
Miguel Samper Agudelo (uncle)
Agripina Samper Agudelo (aunt)}}

| influences =

| influenced =

| notableworks = Novena de Aguinaldos

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}}

{{family name hatnote|Samper|Acosta|lang=Spanish}}

Sister María Ignacia, OSC, born Bertilda Samper Acosta (31 July 1856 – 31 July 1910){{cite book |last1=Acosta |first1=Soledad |editor1-first=Montserrat |editor1-last=Ordóñez Vila |others=Chronology by María Victoria González |title=Novelas y cuadros de la vida suramericana |trans-title=Novels and Portraits of South American Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJCcINGg5IQC |access-date=2010-10-31 |date=August 2004 |location=Bogotá |language=es |isbn=978-958-683-706-4 |oclc=254691569 |pages=405–406 |trans-chapter=Chronology |chapter=Cronología |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJCcINGg5IQC&pg=PA403 }} was a Colombian Poor Clare nun, poet and writer. She was the daughter of José María Samper Agudelo and Soledad Acosta Kemble, both renowned writers and journalists of their time in Colombia.

Although most of her poetry has remained unpublished, she is known for her revision and expansion of the novena of aguinaldos,{{cite journal |journal=Revista Semana |url=http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?IdArt=100263 |title=Navidad, una cuestión de tradición |trans-title=Christmas, A Question of Tradition |first=Juliana |last=Bedoya Pérez |date=2006-12-21 |access-date=2010-11-02 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020193653/http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?IdArt=100263 |archive-date=2007-10-20 |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |journal=El Heraldo |url=http://www.elheraldo.com.co/ELHERALDO/BancoConocimiento/X/x10tiempo_para_rezar_la_novena/x10tiempo_para_rezar_la_novena.asp |access-date=2010-11-02 |title=Tiempo Para Rezar La Novena |first=Nistar |last=Romero Acosta |trans-title=Time To Pray The Novena }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} a popular devotional novena of Advent during the Christmas season in Colombia, also popular in Ecuador and Venezuela.