María Luisa Zancajo de la Mata
Spanish founder of the Missionaries of Charity and Providence
Who they were
Zancajo de la Mata founded the Misioneras de la Caridad y la Providencia. The diocese describes the opening as coinciding with the centenary of her birth.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocese of Albacete opened her cause of canonisation on 30 October 2010 at the parish of the Asunción in Hellín, a date chosen to fall in the centenary year of her birth; the Holy See's nihil obstat is dated 29 September 2010.
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.