Ana Josefa Pérez Florido

Ana Petra Pérez Florido (6 December 1845 – 16 August 1906), religious name Petra of Saint Joseph, was a Spanish religious sister. She established the Congregation of the Mothers of the Forsaken and St. Joseph of the Mountain (Madres de los Desamparados y San José de la Montaña) to care for the abandoned as well as the elderly and infirm.

The second process in Barcelona continued the work of the first process in 1948 and it concluded in 1949. The formal decree of ratification of both processes came from the Congregation for Rites on 4 May 1952 and it ensured that the cause proceeded to the next stage.

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints and their consultants approved the cause on 16 December 1969 while the Congregation alone approved it sometime later on 15 December 1970. On 14 June 1971 Florido was proclaimed to be venerable after Pope Paul VI recognized that she had lived a life of heroic virtue. On 6 July 1993 Pope John Paul II approved a miracle that was attributed to the invocation of Ana Petra Pérez Florido and beatified her in Saint Peter's Square on 16 October 1994.