Calle de Teresita González Quevedo

María Teresa González Quevedo was born in Madrid in 1930, into a well-off and devout family. As a child she was known as cheerful and restless, fond of tennis and other sports. At seventeen she joined the Carmelites of Charity. Two years later she contracted tubercular meningitis and died on 8 April 1950, a few days before turning twenty, after professing her vows on her deathbed. Her brief life fed a current of devotion inside and outside Spain, and in 1983 John Paul II declared her venerable. Madrid named this Cuatro Caminos street in 1960. Where it meets Calle del Capitán Haya, a small garden also bears her name.