María Luisa Montesinos Orduña
Spanish martyr
Feast: 22 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the town of Picassent in the territory of Valencia in Spain, Blessed María Luisa Montesinos Orduña, virgin and martyr, who, while the persecution against the faith raged, shared by martyrdom in the victory of Christ.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 28 January as a virgin martyred at Picassent during the persecution in Spain.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 28 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11769018 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.