María Pilar Izquierdo Albero
María Pilar Izquierdo Albero (27 July 1906 – 27 August 1945) was a Spanish religious sister who founded the Missionary Work of Jesus of Mary (1939). Albero founded her order at the end of the Spanish Civil War - when it was safe to do so - after having rallied from a serious form of blindness and paralysis from 1927 to 1939 though her order was later disbanded and restarted again after a series of complications.
Pope John Paul II beatified her in Saint Peter's Square on 4 November 2001.
In the Martyrology
- August 27 Blessed María Pilar Izquierdo Albero, virgin of the Missionary Work of Jesus and Mary