Marcellina di San Giuseppe (Luisa Aveledo)
Venezuelan founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor of Saint Peter Claver
Who they were
Aveledo was born into a well-known Caracas family and founded the Little Sisters of the Poor of Saint Peter Claver, dying at Barranquilla in Colombia.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The decree on heroic virtues has been promulgated; a miracle would come next.
Why that counted as sanctity
Her cause was opened at Barranquilla in 1986 and Pope Benedict XVI declared her Venerable on 20 December 2012.
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.
Connected on this site
- Peter Claver Saint“Aveledo was born into a well-known Caracas family and founded the Little Sisters of the Poor of Saint Peter Claver, dying at Barranquilla in Colombia.” — this site's research
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.