Mary Conception of St. James and St. Teresa of Jesus
Who they were
María de la Concepción de Oleza y Gual de Torrella was born on 25 April 1905, the eldest of nine children of Lieutenant Colonel Jaime de Oleza y de España and María de la Concepción Gual de Torrella. On 24 October 1928, aged twenty-three, she entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery of Palma, taking the name María Concepción of Saint James and Saint Teresa.
She made her first vows on 26 April 1930 and served her community as prioress for twenty-one years in all and as novice mistress. She died on 7 February 1999, aged almost ninety-four, after seventy years of religious life. Her sisters promote her cause and call her Servant of God, with a prayer for her intercession approved by the Church.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Discalced Carmelite prioress of Palma de Mallorca whose sisters promote her cause.
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.
- Discalced Carmelites of Palma de Mallorca (madreconcepcion.com) - 'Carta de Edificación'
- Discalced Carmelites of Palma de Mallorca (madreconcepcion.com) - home page with the approved prayer to the 'Sierva de Dios M. Concepción'
- Carmel of the Madre Concepción — 'Primeros pasos de la Causa' / 'Amigos de la Causa' — Madre María Concepción de San Jaime y Santa Teresa de Jesús, Discalced Carmelite, d. 7 February 1999 in the reputation of sanctity; her own monastery documents the opening steps of her cause. CAVEAT: I found no Vatican n
- Wikidata Q16663079 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.