Maria Guzmán Figueroa

Due to anticlerical laws and the Cristero War, Father Pablo María exercised his ministry clandestinely. He was sent to Havana between 1928 and 1929, then studied canon law in Rome in 1932. On November 20, 1936, he co-founded in Mexico City, with Mother Enriqueta Rodríguez Noriega, the Congregation of the Eucharistic Missionary Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity (MESST). This institute, dedicated to Eucharistic adoration and education, was established as a diocesan right in 1946 and as a pontifical right in 1985. The sisters opened missions in China (1948), Japan (1949), the United States, Bolivia, and Peru. On December 25, 1937, he also founded the Auxiliary Missionary Daughters of the Solitude of Mary for laywomen. From 1953 to 1959, he resided in Lima, Peru. He died on February 17, 1967, in Mexico City.

The reputation for holiness of Father Pablo María Guzmán Figueroa spread rapidly after his death in Mexico and South America. The diocesan inquiry process into his life, virtues, and reputation for holiness was officially opened on March 25, 1993, in the Archdiocese of Mexico. In 1983, his mortal remains were exhumed from the Spanish cemetery of Mexico and transferred to the crypt of the San Felipe de Jesús temple in Mexico City, where they are venerated by the faithful. After the closing of the diocesan inquiry, the file was transmitted to Rome to be examined by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

On June 14, 2016, Pope Francis authorized the promulgation of the decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Father Pablo María Guzmán Figueroa, after receiving Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in an audience. By this decree, he is officially declared Venerable. His cause for beatification is still ongoing, awaiting the approval by the Holy See of a miracle attributed to his intercession.

Nicknamed the "apostle of gratitude," the Venerable Pablo María Guzmán Figueroa developed an intense Eucharistic and Trinitarian spirituality. His personal mission was summarized by his formula: "My mission within the Church and my congregation is to be gratitude, by feeling it, practicing it, and preaching it." He invited the faithful to offer themselves as living hosts. His legacy continues today through the Eucharistic Missionary Sisters of the Holy Trinity, who number more than 160 religious sisters worldwide, and the lay branch of the Auxiliary Missionaries.