Maria Francesca del Bambino Gesù
The Vatican record
- 2 October 2019 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2019)
Who they were
Maria Natividad Sánchez Villoria, in religion Maria Francesca del Bambino Gesù, was a professed nun of the Order of St Clare; she was born at Fuenteguinaldo, Spain, on 25 December 1905 and died in Salamanca on 28 February 1991. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 2 October 2019.
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 2019.
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 - decrees published in 2019
- 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.