Blessed Laura Evangelista Alvarado Cardozo (25 April 1875 - 2 April 1967) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic professed religious who had established the Augustinian Recollect Sisters of the Heart of Jesus as a means of aiding the ill.
Upon her profession she assumed the religious name of "María de San José".
During her life she was contemporaries with the Venerable José Gregorio Hernández.She was beatified in 1995.