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'''Amalia Abad Casasempere''' (11 December 1897, in [[Alcoy, Spain|Alcoy]] – 21 September 1936, in Alcoy) was a Catholic woman killed during the [[Spanish Civil War]], a widow and mother of two daughters, and very active in the service of the church. She hid two nuns in her house during the civil war.<ref>Rabenstein, K. I. "Abad Casasempere, Amalia, and companions, BB." New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. vol. 1, p. 4. The Catholic University of America, Gale: 2003.</ref><ref name="Prelatura"> "[http://www.prelaturaayaviri.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=652 28 de septiembre: Beata Amalia Abad Casasempere, Madre de familia y mártir"]. Prelatura de Ayaviri.</ref> For this she was arrested and executed by the militia.<ref name = Prelatura/> She was one of [[233 Spanish Martyrs|233 people]] beatified by [[Pope John Paul II]] on 11 March 2001,<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20010311_sanz-compagni_sp.html ''Capilla Papal Presidida por el Santo Padre Juan Pablo II para la Beatificación de los Siervos de Dios'']. Published by Oficina de las Celebraciones Litúrgicas del Sumo Pontífice. Accessed 26 February 2008.</ref> as [[martyrs of the Spanish Civil War]] (the name given by the Catholic Church to those killed by Republicans because of their faith).
'''Amalia Abad Casasempere''' (11 December 1897, in [[Alcoy, Spain|Alcoy]] – 21 September 1936, in Alcoy) was a Catholic woman killed during the [[Spanish Civil War]], a widow and mother of two daughters, and very active in the service of the church. She hid two nuns in her house at the outbreak of the civil war.<ref>Rabenstein, K. I. "Abad Casasempere, Amalia, and companions, BB." New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. vol. 1, p. 4. The Catholic University of America, Gale: 2003.</ref><ref name="Prelatura"> "[http://www.prelaturaayaviri.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=652 28 de septiembre: Beata Amalia Abad Casasempere, Madre de familia y mártir"]. Prelatura de Ayaviri.</ref> For this she was arrested and executed by the militia.<ref name = Prelatura/> She was one of [[233 Spanish Martyrs|233 people]] beatified by [[Pope John Paul II]] on 11 March 2001,<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20010311_sanz-compagni_sp.html ''Capilla Papal Presidida por el Santo Padre Juan Pablo II para la Beatificación de los Siervos de Dios'']. Published by Oficina de las Celebraciones Litúrgicas del Sumo Pontífice. Accessed 26 February 2008.</ref> as [[martyrs of the Spanish Civil War]] (the name given by the Catholic Church to those killed by Republicans because of their faith).


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Amalia Abad Casasempere (11 December 1897, in Alcoy – 21 September 1936, in Alcoy) was a Catholic woman killed during the Spanish Civil War, a widow and mother of two daughters, and very active in the service of the church. She hid two nuns in her house at the outbreak of the civil war.[1][2] For this she was arrested and executed by the militia.[2] She was one of 233 people beatified by Pope John Paul II on 11 March 2001,[3] as martyrs of the Spanish Civil War (the name given by the Catholic Church to those killed by Republicans because of their faith).

References

  1. ^ Rabenstein, K. I. "Abad Casasempere, Amalia, and companions, BB." New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. vol. 1, p. 4. The Catholic University of America, Gale: 2003.
  2. ^ a b "28 de septiembre: Beata Amalia Abad Casasempere, Madre de familia y mártir". Prelatura de Ayaviri.
  3. ^ Capilla Papal Presidida por el Santo Padre Juan Pablo II para la Beatificación de los Siervos de Dios. Published by Oficina de las Celebraciones Litúrgicas del Sumo Pontífice. Accessed 26 February 2008.

Bibliography

  • Vicent Gabarda Cebellán. 1996. The repression in the Republican rearguard: Valencian region, 1936-1939. Vol. 18 of Arxius i documents. Published by Edicions Alfons el Magnànim, Institució Valencian d'Estudis i Investigació, 374 pp.

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