Concepción Cabrera de Armida (8 December 1862 – 3 March 1937) was a Mexican Catholic mystic and writer.Saints of North America by Vincent J. O'Malley 2004 pages 115-117Michael Freze, 1993, Voices, Visions, and Apparitions, OSV Publishing page 246
She was beatified in Mexico City on 4 May 2019, as the first Mexican laywoman to receive this recognition.
Life
In 1884, she married Francisco Armida, with whom she had nine children between 1885 and 1899. In 1901, when she was 39 years old, her husband died and she had to care for her children.
As a mystic, she reported that she heard God telling her: "Ask me for a long suffering life and to write a lot... That's your mission on earth".
Her spiritual life started before the death of her husband. In 1894, she took "spiritual nuptials" and in 1896 wrote in her diary: "In truth, after I touched God and had an imperfect notion of His Being, I wanted to prostrate myself, my forehead and my heart, in the dust and never get up again."
During her life her writings were examined by the Catholic Church in Mexico and even during her pilgrimage to Rome in 1913 during which she had an audience with Pope Pius X. Church authorities looked favorably upon her writings.
Death Cabrera died on 3 March 1937 at the age of 74 and is buried at the Church of San José del Altillo in Mexico City.
Beatification
Pope John Paul II declared her as Venerable on December 20, 1999, and began the process of beatification.
Pope Francis accepted a supposed miracle attributed to her intercession on 8 June 2018, thus paving the way for her to be formally beatified, and Cabrera was beatified on 4 May 2019 in a ceremony which was held in Mexico City, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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External links
Eucharistic Meditations on the Gospel Seasons of the Soul