María Isabel del Carmen Fernández (Isabel María of the Conception of the Most Holy Trinity)
Spanish-born founder in Argentina of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Francis Xavier
Who they were
Born in Málaga and emigrating to Argentina as a child, she founded the Missionary Sisters of Saint Francis Xavier for the education of the young and the care of the elderly and dying.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
Santi e Beati records that the diocesan inquiry began on 21 November 2003 and that the Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved its validity on 13 January 2006.
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
- Francis Xavier Saint“Born in Málaga and emigrating to Argentina as a child, she founded the Missionary Sisters of Saint Francis Xavier for the education of the young and the care of the elderly and dying.” — this site's research
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.