Maria Cecilia Cendoya y Araquistan
Visitation nun, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints lists her, aged twenty-six, first among the companions of Maria Gabriela Hinojosa, the Visitation nuns put to death in 1936. She was beatified on 10 May 1998 by Pope John Paul II.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Dicastery lists her among the Visitation nuns of Madrid put to death in 1936.
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 - maria-gabriela-hinojosa-e-compagne
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 10 May 1998
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.