ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 30th of July WELCOME! SAINT MARIA DE JESUS SACRAMENTADO One of the saints remembered by the Church [on] July 30 is Saint Maria de Jesus Sacramentado. She was born in 1868 at Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, Mexico. She was the youngest of twelve children and her Mother died when St Maria was quite young. The family suffered financial hardship but they were bolstered by the father’s strong Catholic faith. The father died when St Maria was 19 years old and later she moved to Guadalajara, where she worked in a charity hospital called the Sacred Heart Hospital, staffed by a lay group called the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. St Maria joined these Daughters and served as a nurse, then as a pharmacist. At the age of 31 St Maria felt called to take religious vows, and under her leadership the Daughters became a Religious Order. St Maria was elected Superior. THE CHURCH WAS DRIVEN UNDERGROUND St Maria carried on this vital work ...