Bl. Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa

Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa, called "Manuelita", was born in 1904 in Ixtlán del Río, Mexico. In 1929 she entered a monastery of Poor Clares, an enclosed Franciscan order of nuns, and took the name María Inés Teresa of the Blessed Sacrament.

She longed to help spread the Gospel worldwide. In 1945 in Cuernavaca she founded the Missionary Poor Clares of the Blessed Sacrament, who combine prayer with missionary work. The congregation spread to the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe, along with a lay movement and a society of missionary priests. She died in Rome in 1981 and was beatified in 2012.

The Church has declared Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa Blessed.

Beatification allows public veneration, usually in a particular region or religious family. Canonization extends it to the whole Church.