María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras
Spanish Saint, foundress of the Conceptionists Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (1848–1911)
Feast: 25 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Carmen Sallés y Barangueras was born at Vic, near Barcelona, on 9 April 1848, into a deeply Catholic family of ten children; her father was a Franciscan tertiary, her mother a Carmelite tertiary.
She founded the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching to form women of faith and learning, entrusting their work to the Immaculate Virgin. After a long illness borne with admirable patience, she died in Madrid on 25 July 1911, the feast of St James, as she had foretold.
The miracles
A sister
A sudden healing of tuberculous spondylitis in its terminal phase, with new vertebrae appearing in place of the destroyed ones. The medical board (3 May 1992) judged it rapid, complete, lasting and scientifically inexplicable; the decree followed on 18 December 1997.
A three-year-old girl
A very rapid, complete and lasting healing, without treatment, of an extensive vascular brain lesion, judged unanimously scientifically inexplicable by the medical board on 30 June 2011.
Why that counted as sanctity
A foundress who gave girls a Christian education under the protection of the Immaculate.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Maria del Monte Carmelo
- Wikidata Q440129 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Carmen Salles y Barangueras (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.