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“Every afternoon the female prisoners prayed, even though it was forbidden. Emilia wanted to know more about her faith and she asked Dolores del Olmo to explain it to her. There she realized that she belonged to the Church, and she learned the ‘Our Father,’ the ‘Hail Mary’ and the ‘Glory Be’.”
“The warden for the women’s prison, Dolores Salmerón, knew that Emilia and the other prisoners were praying. She offered the woman more food and offered to release her and her husband on one condition: she must reveal the name of whoever taught her to pray.”
“Emilia refused to betray her catechist,” and then she died, from the prison conditions,
She was imprisoned by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, who hated Catholicism, and martyred very many Catholics.
She is the first gypsy woman to be beatified.
She is shown by this painting, “La Canastera,” at e01-elmundo.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2016/06/18/14662474421390.jpg
“Every afternoon the female prisoners prayed, even though it was forbidden. Emilia wanted to know more about her faith and she asked Dolores del Olmo to explain it to her. There she realized that she belonged to the Church, and she learned the ‘Our Father,’ the ‘Hail Mary’ and the ‘Glory Be’.”
“The warden for the women’s prison, Dolores Salmerón, knew that Emilia and the other prisoners were praying. She offered the woman more food and offered to release her and her husband on one condition: she must reveal the name of whoever taught her to pray.”
“Emilia refused to betray her catechist,” and then she died, from the prison conditions,
She was imprisoned by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, who hated Catholicism, and martyred very many Catholics.
She is the first gypsy woman to be beatified.
She is shown by this painting, “La Canastera,” at e01-elmundo.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2016/06/18/14662474421390.jpg