Ana Maria Moreno Del Castillo

Ana Maria Moreno Del Castillo (28 May 1887 – 11 November 1977) was a Panamanian Catholic laywoman whose beatification process commenced in 2017 in the Diocese of Chitré.

Ana Maria Moreno Del Castillo was born in 1887 in La Villa de los Santos, a small village in Panama.

[1] Among her virtues, her simplicity, vocation, and devotion to the Virgin Mary stand out, as well as her dedication to the poor and the sick.

[2] She was well known for her work, receiving the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice as well as inducted into the Vasco Núñez de Balboa Order.

On 28 May 1993 hundreds of faithful requested the Bishop of Chitré, José María Carrizo Villarreal, to open the beatification process.