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Teresa Jornet Ibars, HAD (9 January 1843 – 26 August 1897), also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly.

Ibars was the great-niece of Francisco Palau and a friend and confidante of Saturnino López Novoa. Her dedication to the old and ill was noted, and her sisters' work in Spain and later abroad. (Full article...)
Attributes: Religious habit
Patronage: Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly; People rejected by religious orders; Elderly people
See also: David Lewis, England; Joan Elizabeth Bichier des Âges, France; Mariam Baouardy