María Ángeles Rodríguez de Rivera Chicote

María Ángeles Rodríguez de Rivera Chicote (c. 1884 – 28 October 1936) was a Filipino-born Spanish Catholic laywoman tortured and killed in Málaga during the Spanish Civil War. Her cause for beatification has been initiated.

Biography María Ángeles was born in 1884 in Cotabato, Maguindanao to Manuel Rodríguez de Rivera, an Infantry Colonel stationed in the Philippines, and Carolina Chicote Beltrán. She had one older sister, Carolina, who was born in Manila, and a younger sister, Carmen, born in Aranjuez. Her family has strong religious roots and were daily churchgoers which influenced her younger sister to become a nun.