1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

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Teresa Toda y Juncosa was born in Riudecanyes, Tarragona (Spain) on August 19, 1826. When she was only 13 years old, her father died. Like the girls of her time, in her youth Teresa did not attend school, nor did she undertake particular studies.

A pious young woman of wealthy position, she married Antonio Guasch in 1847. This relationship lasted only three months; in fact, mistreated by her husband, she returned to her mother Magdalena’s house, where on May 28, 1848 her only daughter, Teresita, was born, whose life had been threatened in her mother's womb by her father.

On 5^th of August 1848, she was granted a marriage separation by the ecclesiastical court of Tarragona. She left her hometown for Tarragona. Here she carefully took care of the education of her daughter and at the same time she prepared to found, in 1878, supported by Canon D. José Caixal, the Congregation of the Teresian Carmelite Sisters of St. Joseph by which, with her daughter, she would pursue her desire to welcome and educate poor orphan girls.

Together with her daughter Teresa Guasch and two other companions, she made her solemn profession on September 16, 1883, taking the religious name of Teresa of St Joseph. That same day she was elected the first Superior General; they wrote the first Constitutions and opened the first colleges.

She died on July 30, 1898 in Barcelona, after having spent her whole life in the service of Love.

The decree on her heroic virtues was promulgated on June 3, 2013.

1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

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Teresa Mira García was born in Algueña, Alicante - Spain on September 26, 1895. Daughter of José and Teresa, she was the second of nine children.

To receive Jesus in her First Communion she established a relationship of friendship and brotherhood that she had always cultivated with simplicity and joy. A good viaticum for her courageous and determined choice to follow Christ in the consecrated life. She chose to enter the Teresian Carmelite Missionary Sisters.                                       

She deeply embodied the charism of the congregation that emanated from the mystery of the Church and consecrated herself to God for the service of others.

The evangelizing dimension lived in a climate of ecclesial experience, as a daughter of Blessed Francesco Palau, her mission was a generous dedication to the members of the Mystical Body of Christ and to make them sharers in her own communion of life.

Teresa lived entirely as a missionary in the Teresian Carmel from 1915 until her death on February 26, 1941.

On December 17, 1996, the decree on her heroic virtues was promulgated.

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