Venerable Clara de la Concepción Sánchez

Juana de la Concepción Sánchez García, in religion Clara de la Concepción, born February 14, 1902, in Torre en Cameros, Spain, and died in 1973 in Soria, Castile and León, was a Spanish Catholic nun of the Order of Saint Clare. She led a life considered exemplary, became superior of her convent, and promoted a spiritual renewal and a return to Franciscan roots. Her beatification process has been opened, and she was proclaimed venerable in 2014. Her feast day is January 22.