Julio María Matovelle
Julio María Matovelle (1852-1929) was an Ecuadorian priest, lawyer, and politician, founder of the Missionaries and the …
Place
Quito
EC
14 saints associated
Maria Elisabetta Mazza
Maria Elisabetta Mazza (1886-1950) was an Italian teacher, foundress of the Institute of the Little Apostles of the Chri…
Blessed Mariana de Jesús (de Paredes y Flores)
Born in Quito in the 17th century, Marianne of Jesus dedicated herself from childhood to a life of extreme austerities a…
Mariana de Jesús de Paredes
Ecuadorian mystic (1618-1645), recluse and Franciscan tertiary nicknamed the "Lily of Quito", who offered herself as a v…
Miguel Febres Cordero
A religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Saint Miguel Febres Cordero was a brilliant Ecuad…
Pedro Urraca
Pedro Urraca (1583-1657), a Spanish priest of the Order of Mercy, was distinguished by his heroic charity in Lima and hi…
Rafaela Veintemilla Villacis
Rafaela Veintemilla Villacis (Rafaela of the Passion) was an Ecuadorian religious sister, foundress of the Congregation …
Rosa Elena Cornejo Pazmiño
Founder of the Institute of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate, she dedicated her life to Eucharistic a…
Vicente Bernedo
Vicente Bernedo (1562-1619) was a Spanish Dominican religious, missionary, and tireless evangelizer of the Bolivian Alti…
Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas
Ecuadorian Jesuit priest and educator, assassinated in hatred of the faith in 1897 during the Liberal Revolution, beatif…