Josefa Menéndez (4 February 1890 – 29 December 1923) was a Catholic nun and mystic. She was born to a Christian family in Madrid, where she suffered various trials. In 1920, at 30, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in

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. Her religious life was spent cleaning and sewing. While a nun, she reportedly received visions of Jesus.Oeuvre du Sacré-Coeur: Who is Josefa Menedez?
/ref> The Way of Divine Love, reprinted by TAN Books, Inc. (now part of St. Benedict Press) is an account of her life and visions. A cause for Menéndez's beatification was formally opened on 26 November 1948, granting her the title of

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1890 births 1923 deaths 20th-century Spanish nuns Writers from Madrid {{RC-bio-stub