Calle Teresita González Quevedo

The affectionate diminutive recalls a very brief life. María Teresa González Quevedo was born in Madrid in 1930 and died in 1950, before turning twenty. They called her Teresita, and so she remained on the street map when the City Council dedicated this street to her in 1960. She grew up in a well-off family. At seventeen she told her parents she wanted to enter religious life, and in 1948 she joined the Carmelites of Charity in Carabanchel as a novice. Convent life did not last long: in 1950 she was diagnosed with tubercular meningitis. She professed her vows in the very moment she received last rites, and died a few days before her twentieth birthday. In 1983 John Paul II proclaimed her venerable. The street runs briefly through Castillejos, barely two hundred and seventy meters, almost the measure of the life it commemorates.