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Teresa Mira García was born in Algueña, Alicante - Spain on September 26, 1895. Daughter of José and Teresa, she was the second of nine children.

To receive Jesus in her First Communion she established a relationship of friendship and brotherhood that she had always cultivated with simplicity and joy. A good viaticum for her courageous and determined choice to follow Christ in the consecrated life. She chose to enter the Teresian Carmelite Missionary Sisters.                                       

She deeply embodied the charism of the congregation that emanated from the mystery of the Church and consecrated herself to God for the service of others.

The evangelizing dimension lived in a climate of ecclesial experience, as a daughter of Blessed Francesco Palau, her mission was a generous dedication to the members of the Mystical Body of Christ and to make them sharers in her own communion of life.

Teresa lived entirely as a missionary in the Teresian Carmel from 1915 until her death on February 26, 1941.

On December 17, 1996, the decree on her heroic virtues was promulgated.

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1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

Maria Luisa de la Peña Navarro was born on June 21, 1866 in Atotonilco El Alto (Jalisco), Mexico, into a family of wealthy landowners, of good manners and very charitable.

At the age of 15, in an arranged marriage according to the customs at that time, she  married doctor Pascual Rojas, a very charitable and generous man. One of the main works carried out by Rojas, along with other families, was the construction of the Sacred Heart Hospital, the first in Atotonilco, which was inaugurated in 1892. When she was widowed in 1896, a new path opened up for Maria Luisa in life. She devoted herself much to prayer and to the service of the sick.

After a brief experience in the Discalced Carmelites of Guadalajara, on 24^th of December 1904, she founded in Atotonilco the Congregation of the Carmelites of the Sacred Heart, taking the name of María Luisa Josefa of the Blessed Sacrament. Mother Luisita, as she was affectionately called by all people, was distinguished by a prayerful and contemplative attitude that led her to discover God in everything and to announce with admiration and gratitude the wonders he had done in her and through her. Such was her detachment and poverty, trust and abandonment into God's hands; her constant search for the Father's will and loving obedience to his plan.

She died a holy death in Guadalajara, Mexico, on February 11, 1937.

The decree on her heroic virtues was promulgated on July 1^st, 2000. 

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1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).