Teresa Jornet Ibars (9 January 1843 – 26 August 1897), also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly.

Ibars was the great-niece of Francisco Palau and a friend and confidante of Saturnino López Novoa. Her dedication to the old and ill was noted, and her sisters' work in Spain and later abroad.

Her beatification was celebrated under Pope Pius XII on 27 April 1958 in Saint Peter's Basilica while Pope Paul VI later canonized her as a saint in 1974. (Full article...)
Attributes: Religious habit
Patronage: Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly; People rejected by religious orders; Elderly people
See also: David Lewis, England; Joan Elizabeth Bichier des Âges, France; Mariam Baouardy