Maria Clara of the Child Jesus (15 June 1843 – 1 December 1899) — born Libânia do Carmo Galvão Mexia de Moura Telles de Albuquerque was a Portuguese religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church who established the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Lisbon.

[3] Her beatification was celebrated in Lisbon in 2011 and Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the solemn Mass on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.

Her mother died from cholera on 30 May 1856 and her father followed mere months later in 1857 due to Yellow Fever in Saint Joseph's Hospital.

In 1869 she received the habit of the Capuchin order in the convent of São Patrício and assumed the name of "Maria Clara of the Child Jesus".

[4] She was installed on 3 May 1871 as the superior and novice mistress of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception that she founded; she was recognized as the foundress in a solemn celebration on 3 May 1876.

Beirão died on 13 June 1878 which prompted her to guide the order alone and she could not reach the funeral in time due to her visiting the houses of Braga.

On 23 June 1893 the Holy See appointed the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon José Sebastião de Almeida Neto as the apostolic vicar to the order.

[4] On 29 May 1896 the Franciscan priest Antonio de Santa Maria was made the new apostolic visitor of the order and in the 2–25 October 1897 General Chapter sought to isolate her with amending the constitution of the order; the General Chapter of 2–6 September 1896 was for researching such amendments though the presiding priest was another appointed as the visitor.

She was proclaimed to be Venerable on 6 December 2009 after Pope Benedict XVI approved the fact that she had lived a life of heroic virtue.