Piedad de la Cruz
Feast: 26 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Tomasa Ortiz Real was born at Bocairente, Valencia, on 12 November 1842. At her First Communion she felt Jesus calling her to religious life, but her father made her return home when she tried to enter a convent.
At Bocairente she gave herself to prayer and to helping poor children, the old and the sick. She founded the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the education and catechesis of the poor.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The founder of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
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 - biography: Piedad de la Cruz Ortiz Real
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 21 March 2004
- Wikidata Q2056038 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Tomasa Ortiz Real (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.