History of the Catholic Church in Spain who was active in many different modes of religion, including organizing convents and new congregations, and developing the theology of the Counter Reformation in Spain that permanently minimized the Protestant influence there. In the 1620s Spain debated who should be the nation's patron saint- the current patron Saint James Matamoros (Saint James the Moor-slayer) or a combination of him and the newly canonized Saint Teresa of Ávila. Teresa's promoters said Spain faced new challenges, especially the threat of Protestantism, and the declining society at home and needed a modern patron saint who understood these problems and could lead the Spanish
Saint Potenciana imaginative details that were later added by her devotees, it appears that the real Saint Potenciana was an ordinary woman who worked as a weaver, living a hermit's life in poverty close to All Saints Church, and who was looked on as saintly both in life and in death and earned the respect and veneration of the local people, who appealed to her for comfort and aid in their troubles and ailments. Saint Pudentiana is also called Saint Potentiana, in Spanish Potenciana. Saint Potenciana is the patron saint of Villanueva de la Reina. She was also patron saint of Andújar