Ana Josefa Pérez Florido
Spanish nun (1845–1906)
Feast: 16 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ana Josefa Pérez Florido was born on 7 December 1845 in the valley of Abdalajís near Málaga, the last of nineteen children. Orphaned young, she took the Virgin as her mother.
As Mother Petra of St Joseph she founded the Congregation of the Mothers of the Abandoned and of St Joseph of the Mountain, and cared for old people left alone.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
She made herself mother to the abandoned elderly, accepting through many difficulties the work God gave her.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Petra de San José Pérez Florido
- Wikidata Q11815974 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ana Petra Pérez Florido (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.