Angela of the Cross Guerrero y González (Spanish: Ángela de la Cruz or María de los Ángeles Guerrero González; 30 January 1846 – 2 March 1932[2]) was a Spanish religious sister and the foundress of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross [es],[3] a Roman Catholic religious institute dedicated to helping the abandoned poor and the ill with no one to care for them.

Both of Guerrero's parents worked in a priory of the Trinitarian friars in Seville, her father as a cook and her mother as a laundress and seamstress.

Guerrero's supervisor at the shoe repair shop was Antonia Maldonado, a devout lady who encouraged her employees to pray together, recite the rosary, and read about the lives of saints.

Her application, however, was denied because the state of her health seemed inadequate for the heavy physical work demanded of those members of the monastic community.

The sisters attempted to nurse her to full health, sending her to Valencia to recover,[6] but Guerrero finally had to leave the convent during her novitiate and returned to work in the shoe factory.

[6] With money from De la Peña, they had rented a small room with access to a kitchen at 13 San Luis Street in Seville, and from there they organized a day and night support service for the local poor and ill.[8] At that time, they began to wear a religious habit and Guerrero took the religious name of Mother Angela of the Cross.

The community received official approval on 5 April 1876 from Luis de la Lastra y Cuesta, the cardinal archbishop of Seville.