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Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "I am pleased to recall that yesterday, in Mexico, María Inés Teresa of the Blessed Sacrament, foundress of the Clarissan Missionary Sisters of the most Blessed Sacrament was beatified. Let us thank God for this exemplary daughter of the Mexican land, which I recently had the pleasure to visit and I always carry her in my heart ", said Holy Father Benedict XVI on Sunday, April 22, after the Regina Caeli Marian prayer.
The beatification took place on Saturday, April 21 in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, before an assembly of more than 12,000 faithful gathered in the Marian Shrine. The beatification of Mother María Inés Teresa "is the feast of holiness, because the Saints are God’s smile on this earth," the Cardinal said in his homily, underlining one of the characteristics of the newly Blessed, the fourth Mexican woman in the glory of the altars: "a perpetual smile adorned her extraordinarily virtuous life."
María Inés Mother Teresa of the Blessed Sacrament was born in Ixtlan del Rio, Nayarit (Mexico) in 1904 and died in 1981. After spending a long period as a cloistered nun, during the years of religious persecution in Mexico, she felt called to go and preach the Gospel throughout the world and, then founded a religious missionary institute, working in different fields of the mission Ad gentes: she taught at all levels, hospitals, churches, clinics, popular missions. Her spiritual children, now present in 14 countries (Japan, USA, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Italy, Spain, Nigeria, Ireland, Korea, Germany, India, Russia and Argentina), constitute the "Inesiana Family" consisting of: women religious " Poor Clares missionaries," religious priests" Missionaries of Christ," priests of " Priest group Mother Ines Group", the " Inesiane Consecrate Missionaries", the missionary group "Van-Clar" and the association " Eucharistical Family". (SL) (Agenzia Fides 23/4/2012)
