Blessed Mother Laura Montoya pictured in undated portrait Blessed Mother Laura Montoya, the Colombian founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate and of St. Catherine of Siena, is pictured in an undated portrait. Mother Montoya, who died in 1949 after a career spent working with poor indigenous Colombians in difficult circumstances, will be canonized on May 12 and become the first Colombian saint. (CNS photo)