Blessed Maria de la Cabeza

Also known as

• Maria of the Head
• Maria Toribia

Memorial

• 9 September
• 15 May with Saint Isidore the Farmer

Profile

In Torrelaguna, Spain she met and married to Saint Isidore the Farmer. She spent her life working on the farm, cleaning local chapels and shrines, helping the poor. The title of the Head is due to her head being a relic venerated for centuries, and the need to distiguish her from so many other Saints Mary.

Born

• at Uceda, Guadalajara, Spain

Died

• c.1175
• relics long displayed in a Franciscan convent in Torrelaguna, Spain
• relics moved to Saint Andrew’s Church in Madrid, Spain in 1645 and interred beside Saint Isidore

Beatified

• by Pope Leo X (cultus confirmed)
• 11 August 1697 by Pope Innocent XII (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

• Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
• World Youth Day 2011

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Worth Youth Day 2011

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Maria de la Cabeza”. Saints.SQPN.com. 16 November 2010. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-maria-de-la-cabeza/>