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Virgins and Martyrs — Optional Memorial

In a single memorial, we commemorate our sisters who were martyred during the Spanish Civil War that raged from 1936 to 1939. In particular: Maria Pilar of St Francis Borgia (Jacoba Martínez García born in Tarazona on 30 December 1877), Teresa of the Child Jesus and St John of the Cross (Eusebia García y García born in Mochales on 5 March 1909), Maria Angeles of St Joseph (Marciana Valtierra Tordesillas born in Getafe on 6 March 1905), Discalced Carmelite nuns from the Monastery of Guadalajara (Spain), were martyred on 24 July 1936 and beatified by John Paul II in 1987. Maria Sagrario of St. Aloysius Gonzaga (Elvira Moragas Cantarero) was born in Lillo (Toledo) on 8 January 1881. One of the first women pharmacists in Spain, she entered the Carmelite Order in Madrid in 1915. By her spirit of prayer and her love for the Eucharist she embodied the ideal of the Teresian Carmel. On 15 August 1936 she suffered the martyrdom that she so desired.