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Maria de Lourdes Guarda
VenerableFull write-up
Born
22 November 1926
verified
Died
5 May 1996
verified
Venerable
21 November 2025
Vatican record
Canonised
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not yet
The Vatican record
- 21 November 2025 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2025)
Who they were
Maria de Lourdes Guarda was a laywoman, born at Salto, Brazil, on 22 November 1926, who died in São Paulo on 5 May 1996. Pope Leo XIV recognised her heroic virtue on 21 November 2025.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised her heroic virtue in 2025.
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.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - decrees published in 2025
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.