Sister Belén de la Cruz was 33 years old when she died of ovarian cancer in 2018 at the Carmelite convent in San Calixto (Cordoba), Spain.
Before joining the Carmelites in 2005, she was a student at the elite Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF) in Madrid and the golf champion of Andalusia.
Even as a child, she was very good at sports. She loved cycling, football and golf, but she didn't like competition.
A month before she entered the convent, she won a golf prize in Puerto de Santa María, but on the photo with all the winners, she was missing.
Sister Belén's fame began after her death, her father Estanislao Pery Paredes told ElDebate.com (5 June).
For example: More than 600 people attended her funeral on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Most of them were outside the church, getting wet.
She was 19 or 20 when she wrote her first letter to the prioress of San Calixto, who did not make it easy for her because she was so young. She was 21 when she entered.
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