The Guadalajara Reporter

Tapatia nun to become saint

Guadalajara-born nun Maria Guadalupe Anastasia García Zavala (Madre Lupita) will become a saint on Sunday, May 12 in a special ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

Madre Lupita was the cofounder of the Sisters of St. Margaret Mary and the Poor Congregation and the director general of the Santa Margarita Hospital in Calle Garibaldi in the Capilla de Jesus neighborhood of Guadalajara.

In the words of the Catholic News Agency, she led by example, demonstrating “the importance of living a genuine and joyful existence. During the Cristero War of the 1920s, she hid persecuted priests and even the archbishop of Guadalajara from government troops.

When times were hard Madre Lupita would often take to the streets herself to seek donations.

She will become Mexico’s second female saint after Maria de Natividad de Jesus Sacramentado Venegas from Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, who was canonized by Pope John Paul II in May 2001.