María Ana Mogas Fontcuberta

Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta (13 January 1827 - 3 July 1886) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun in the name of "María Ana" and the founder of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd. Mogas Fontcuberta was in a Capuchin congregation before establishing her own order and was under the guidance of Josep Tous Soler.

The beatification cause commenced under Pope Paul VI on 11 June 1977 and Pope John Paul II beatified her on 6 October 1996.

Life Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta was born in Granollers, a textile and farming city about thirty miles from Barcelona in Spain's Catalonia region on 13 January 1827. She was the third of four children of Llorenç Mogas – a farmer and innkeeper – and Magdalena Fontcuberta.

Her order grew and eventually pursued recognition for the foundress. Her order was aggregated with other Franciscan Orders on 19 June 1906. As of 2005, the order included 669 religious in 105 houses in locations as diverse as Benin, Argentina and Portugal.

Fontcubra received a papal decree of praise on 22 September 1894, and diocesan approval for her potential beatification came on 4 July 1896. Pope Leo XIII issued formal approval of the potential cause on 8 August 1899. The informative process concerning Mogas Fontcubra commenced in Madrid on 5 March 1949 and concluded on 28 May 1963. Theologians examined all of her theological writings and declared that the latter complied with the magisterium of the faith, as an official decree declared on 21 October 1965.

Pope Paul VI declared Fontcuberta a Servant of God on 11 June 1977, after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (C.C.S.) began the formal cause. A diocesan historical commission had begun an investigation which took from 1978 to 1988. Historians met on 9 May 1989 to approve the cause, and the C.C.S. validated their process on 1 December 1989. The C.C.S. received the Positio in 1990 and passed it onto consulting theologians on 3 June 1994 for their approval. The C.C.S. approved the cause on 18 October 1994. Pope John Paul II proclaimed M Fontcubra as Venerable on 15 December 1994 after confirming her life of heroic virtue.

The process of investigating a miracle spanned from 1989 until 1990 and received C.C.S. validation on 12 February 1993. A medical board approved the miracle on 14 June 1995, and theologians came to the same conclusion on 1 November 1995. After the C.C.S. voted in favor on 5 March 1996, Pope John Paul II approved the result on 25 June 1996 and beatified her on 6 October 1996.

A church in Madrid is named to honor Maria Ana Mogas Fontcubra.