Barcelo y Pages was born on July 24, 1857, in Sarriá, Barcelona, Spain, to Salvador Barceló y Roces and Maria Pagés y Campanya.

[1] Her siblings were Salvador, Joaquin, Ana Maria and Ignes Joaquina Vicenta, (the future Mother Rita Barceló).

However, when the Beatas Agustinas were invited to go to the Philippines to take care of young girls, orphaned because of the cholera epidemic, her desire for convent life was rekindled.

To replenish the number of beatas for the Asilo, Sor Rita, with Sor Consuelo, proposed two simultaneous sources of workers for the lord’s vineyard: a novitiate in Spain (Agustinas Misioneras de Ultramar, which the surviving beatas founded upon their return to Barcelona) and another one in the Philippines for the formation of native sisters.

Fearing reprisals from the revolutionaries upon the discovery of the Katipunan in 1896, the Barceló sisters and the Filipino beatas prayed ardently to their patroness, Our Lady of Consolation.

[3] The Filipino beatas were left “with neither a house nor a single cent nor the hope of acquiring it.” But they resolved to stay together to preserve their community.

The Hermanas Agustinas Terciarias de las Islas Filipinas received on May 31, 1902, the official aggregation to the Augustinian Order by the Prior General in Rome.

Back in the Beaterio of Barcelona, Mother Consuelo adapted so harmoniously with the Spanish Beatas that, in recognition of her personal qualities and her administrative ability, the members of the community elected her as their superior in February 1903.

Incidentally, on February 12, 1910, Colegio de la Consolacion received “government recognition”, becoming the first private school to be recognized by the department of education during the American rule.

Her remains were exposed in the chapel of Colegio de la Consolacion, Manila, where hundreds of girls both young and old came to offer their last tribute of love and gratitude.

The principal theological virtue that characterizes the life and death of Mother Consuelo Barceló is the love of God and neighbor.

[2] Her words and her action give credence to her great charity that burst forth from the deep love of God so that she concretely demonstrated it in her love of her neighbors – her religious sisters, sisters of other congregations, the bishops, priests, the orphans and the working girls, the teachers and personnel of Augustinian schools, her family and other people, especially the poor.

Coupled with justice is her prudence, fortitude and temperance which enabled her to judge justly and decide lovingly for the needs and concerns of the congregation and her individual sisters.

Barcelo Pages is currently in consideration for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church with protocol number 2472 assigned by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.