Teresa Jornet Ibars
Teresa Jornet Ibars, HAD (9 January 1843 – 26 August 1897), also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish religious sister who founded of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly.
Ibars was the great-niece of Francisco Palau and a friend and confidante of Saturnino López Novoa. Her dedication to the old and ill was noted, and her sisters' work in Spain and later abroad.
Her beatification was celebrated by Pope Pius XII on 27 April 1958 in Saint Peter's Basilica. Pope Paul VI canonized Ibars in 1974.
Patron saint of persons of old age
In the Martyrology
- August 26 Saint Teresa de Jesús Jornet Ibars, virgin, founder of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly