Maria Teresa Gonzalez-Quevedo Cadarso
Spanish Carmelite nun and Venerable
The Vatican record
- 17 December 2022 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2022)
Who they were
Maria Teresa Gonzalez-Quevedo Cadarso was born in Madrid on 14 April 1930, Holy Saturday, daughter of a well-known Madrid doctor, and grew up comfortably near the Royal Palace, a lively, popular girl who preferred playing pelota to studying, though at only ten she had already written in a note, 'I have decided to be a saint.' Devoted to the Virgin Mary from 1944 through the Marian Congregation, she came to feel a growing call to religious life, and at seventeen, to general surprise, she left everything to enter the convent of the Carmelites of Charity.
In her three years of religious life she passed through all the mystical stages of sanctity, reading Saint Thérèse of Lisieux's Story of a Soul and shaping her own 'little way' through devotion to Mary. On 18 January 1950 she felt a severe headache; the diagnosis was tubercular meningitis, and she died on the night of Holy Saturday, 8 April 1950, crying out, 'My Mother, come and take me, and carry me with you to Paradise!' Pope John Paul II recognised her heroic virtues and declared her Venerable on 9 June 1983.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
Discalced Carmelite nun of Madrid who died of tubercular meningitis at nineteen after three years in religious life; declared Venerable by John Paul II on 9 June 1983.
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.
Connected on this site
- Thérèse of Lisieux Saint“In her three years of religious life she passed through all the mystical stages of sanctity, reading Saint Thérèse of Lisieux's Story of a Soul and shaping her own 'little way' through devotion to Mary.” — this site's research
- Santi, beati e testimoni (santiebeati.it) - Venerabile Maria Teresa di Gesù (Maria Teresa Gonzalez-Quevedo Cadarso), by Maria Di Lorenzo
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q20040146 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.