Ana Petra Pérez Florido
Ana Petra Pérez Florido (6 December 1845 – 16 August 1906), religious name Petra of Saint Joseph, was a Spanish religious sister. She established the Congregation of the Mothers of the Forsaken and St. Joseph of the Mountain (Madres de los Desamparados y San José de la Montaña) to care for the abandoned as well as the elderly and infirm. Pope John Paul II beatified her on 16 October 1994.
Patron saint of Mothers of the Forsaken and St. Joseph of the Mountain
In the Martyrology
- August 16 Blessed Petra de San José Pérez Florido, founder of the Mothers of the Helpless and of Saint Joseph of the Mountain