Religious, 1592 – 1665

Angela Maria Astorch was born in Barcelona on September 1, 1592. Having lost her father and mother at a young age, she entered the Capuchin Poor Clares monastery in Barcelona. She made her religious profession there on September 8, 1609. At twenty, she was sent to Zaragoza as a novice mistress; she was later elected abbess of this monastery and governed it until the foundation of the monastery in Murcia in 1645.

Her devotions: the Child Jesus, the Sacred Heart, the Passion, but especially the Eucharist. She saw the real presence of Christ as the epitome of all Christology: the Incarnation, Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Lord. For her, the presence of Mary was inseparable in these mysteries of Christ, whose closeness she sometimes experienced in the most intimate part of her soul. Physical and spiritual trials further deepened her soul's love. Her mystical experiences are recounted in the writings she left by order of her confessors. She died on December 2, 1665.

She was beatified on May 23, 1982 by John Paul II.