Bl. Encarnación Gil Valls

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Born: 27 January 1888 in Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain 

Died: shot on the night of 24 September 1936 at the port of L’Ollería, Valencia, Spain 

Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II 

Lay woman in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain. Baptized on the day of her birth, she was confirmed at age 5 and made her first Communion at 11, all in her parish church of Santa Maria. 

She considered religious life, but realized a vocation of helping her brother who as a parish priest. Taught elementary school. Member of Catholic Action the Daughters of Mary, a catechist, she was devoted to Eucharistic adoration. 

Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.