Born in Nicaragua and later moving to the United States, Mother Adela Galindo has a master’s degree in theology and two Doctoris honoris causa. She founded a bilingual religious family: Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary Religious Sisters, Brothers, and Priests, and Lay Apostles of the Pierced Hearts. Mother Adela has been an untiring evangelizer throughout the world through preaching, leading pilgrimages, and works of solidarity especially in the Holy Land, for which she has received many recognitions such as the St. Vincent de Paul Award, and named a Dame of the Holy Sepulchre.