The Servant of God María Félix Torres was born on August 25, 1907, in Albelda (Huesca, Spain). Having received a good human and Christian education from her family, in 1921 she was sent to Lérida for secondary education. While living at the College of the Company of Mary, during Holy Week 1922, at the age of 14, she made her first Spiritual Exercises according to the method of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, during which she strongly felt the call to consecrated life. At first, her parents strongly opposed this choice and decided to withdraw her from the college and forbid her any contact with the nuns. Later, seeing their daughter's steadfastness, they granted her permission to enter the novitiate upon completion of her university studies.

The Servant of God moved to Barcelona, ​​where she began her university studies and simultaneously devoted herself to pastoral work, becoming the first delegate for Catholic Action's women's university youth. During this period, she had the opportunity to deepen her Ignatian spirituality thanks to the formation she received from her Jesuit confessor. Moving to Zaragoza, the Servant of God continued her religious formation under the spiritual guidance of other Jesuits, fostering a life of prayer and assistance to the poor. To this end, she and some colleagues organized groups of catechists to evangelize the slums of Zaragoza.

In 1930, she became one of the first Spanish women to graduate in Chemistry from the University of Zaragoza. After completing her university studies in 1932, during the Spiritual Exercises, she decided to realize her intention of religious consecration by founding the Company of the Savior, with Ignatian spirituality, dedicated to the apostolate of young women, especially university students. Amidst many financial difficulties, she opened a small school in Lleida, the Academia Nueva. On August 15, 1934, together with her first collaborator and friend, Carmen Aige, she made a private vow to devote her life to the benefit of souls and the service of the Church, following the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The following year she moved to Madrid to pursue her doctorate at the Central University, but political and social circumstances in Spain forced her to return to her family a few days before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. During this period, she devoted herself to helping persecuted priests.

After the war, on August 15, 1940, the Servant of God gathered a group of young university students to renew their dedication to the Lord through a vow. In 1944, the Pious Union of the Company of the Savior was established. Shortly thereafter, the foundation of new religious houses began, and the Servant of God was elected Superior General. In 1952, the Company of the Savior was approved as a Religious Institute of diocesan right, and the Servant of God dedicated herself to the formation of the young women entering the Institute. In particular, she lived and transmitted to them the following spiritual foundations: love and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, adherence to the Pope through the fourth vow of special obedience, and an ardent apostolic fervor in the formation of the young women. In 1965, the Servant of God suffered a cerebral embolism, after which she had to relearn how to read and write. In her role as Superior General, she followed the indications of the Second Vatican Council.

In 1986, the Company of the Savior was approved by the Holy See as a Religious Institute of Pontifical Right. The Servant of God spent her final years governing her foundation, in prayer, silence, and offering her sufferings to the Lord. She died in Madrid on January 12, 2001, at the age of 93.

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