Maria Romero Meneses

María Romero Meneses, FMA (13 January 1902 – 7 July 1977) was a Nicaraguan religious sister of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco. Romero Meneses was sometimes called the "Social Apostle of Costa Rica".

Romero Meneses's beatification process started on September 20, 1988, and she was titled as a Servant of God before being named venerable on December 18, 2000. Pope John Paul II beatified her on April 14, 2002.

Life

María Romero Meneses was born in Nicaragua in 1902 as one of eight children to middle-class parents – her father was a government minister. Her parents were Félix Romero Arana and Ana Meneses Blandón. Her baptism was held on January the 20th. She received her Confirmation on July 23, 1904, from Siméon Pereira y Castellón and received her First Communion on December 8, 1909.

Romero was found to have a talent for art and music and so her parents saw to it that she was trained on the piano and the violin. She later attended the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco's school, although in 1914 she was stricken with a long bout of rheumatic fever which she suffered until 1915 and it left her heart damaged for the remainder of her life. The postulator for this cause is Pierluigi Cameroni.