August 26, 2021

St. Teresa of Jesus (d. 1897) was born in Catalonia, Spain. She overcame many difficulties in her youth and eventually became a teacher at Lerida. Desirous to enter the religious life, she failed to win entry into the convent at the advice of her spiritual director. She then decided to launch her own congregation. On January 27, 1872, at Barbastro, Spain, she began the Little Sisters of the Poor, called the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Age. She founded more than fifty houses for her congregation. Teresa was beatified in 1958 and she was canonized in 1974 by Pope VI.

St. Teresa of Jesus please pray for our elderly who have no one to look after them.