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Modern Saint: Maria de las Maravillas de Jesus Something true and wondrous Share by Melanie Rigney It was a long name for an infant: Maria de las Maravillas Pidal Chico de Guzman. But her mother had a special devotion to Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders, or Marvels) … and there was, of course, that family pedigree. When the child they nicknamed Mavi was born, her father was serving as the Spanish ambassador to the Holy See. Reading the works of St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross surely fueled Mavi’s interest in becoming a Carmelite. All those saints stories her beloved grandmother read to her had an impact, as well. But as Mavi’s certainty about her vocation solidified, her top priority was helping to care for her ailing father. He died a few weeks after Mavi’s 22nd birthday, and her grandmother died soon thereafter. The young woman’s spiritual director advised her to wait to enter religious life until her mother embr ....