Alzira da Conceição Sobrinho (Sister Maria de São João Evangelista)
Portuguese founder of the Franciscan Servants Reparatrices of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
Who they were
She founded the Servas Franciscanas Reparadoras de Jesus Sacramentado in 1950 and was known from youth for an ardent Eucharistic devotion.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Diocese of Bragança-Miranda opened the diocesan inquiry into her cause in August 2024 at Macedo de Cavaleiros, the bishop describing her as a mystic.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.