Raffaela Maria di Gesù Ostia
The Vatican record
- 5 May 2015 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2015)
Who they were
Raffaela Martínez-Cañavate Ballesteros, in religion Raffaela Maria di Gesù Ostia, was a professed nun of the Order of Capuchin Poor Clares; she was born at Maracena, Spain, on 31 March 1915 and died at Chauchina, Spain, on 29 May 1991. Pope Francis recognised her heroic virtue on 5 May 2015.
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 2015.
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 2015
- 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.